This is the audiobook sample for The Blood and the Rain Chapter 3 - The System Defends itself. The Blood and the Rain will be released as an ebook and paperback in July 2025. The Audiobook is scheduled to be released by the end of the summer. Enjoy.

July 2025, Black Cats Run Founder and Host, Tristan Black-Ingersoll will be releasing his book The Blood and the Rain.

This is the audiobook preface to The Blood and the Rain.

It introduces the core argument of the book: that endurance performance isn’t limited by physiology alone, but by the brain’s regulation of effort, fatigue, and threat. The book builds on ideas explored in Black Cats Run, challenging modern training paradigms and offering a new framework for how athletes improve. It also introduces the Multi Scalar Endurance Model (MSEM) which argues for a more nuanced and pedagogical approach to training. It builds on many of the ideas of the podcast, but it introduces completely new material.

The book will be release for Kindle, paperback, and later this summer as an audiobook.

Paperback will be on sale for $29.99. But if you contact us directly via our Instragram page @Blackcatsrun you can get a signed copy for $17.99.

Enjoy.

The case is afoot! Is it possible that the explanations we have for fatigue are not only limited but that they hide a greater truth? Performance competes with fatigue, they are, at the boundaries of performance, where we find failure and exhaustion, antithetics. Maybe, if we can find the trial, we can unearth something unexpected? The brain is our number one suspect. Tag along.