Last updated: 28-Sep-18 By Elsa Trujillo For ultra runners, a change of season and weather brings a change of pace and some long term training goals for 2019 events. This week, we’ve put together a great collection of training-related articles for all your running endeavours and aspirations. We explore the benefits of running, share a […]
Last updated: 10-Sep-18 By Sarah Cooke I have never thought of myself as a winner. I don’t regard myself to be competitive against others, only against my own standards. I thrive on a challenge, but my running has always been about doing myself justice and achieving things that I didn’t believe my body could do.
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By Elsa Trujillo For many of us the summer is nearly over but, of course, the running never stops. This week our articles deal with bad things that can happen during a race, such as nausea and altitude sickness and some that happen after the race, like post-race blues. On the physical aspect of things
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Last updated: 24-Aug-18 By Elsa Trujillo Summer in the northern hemisphere is all about the heat and that great mountain festival of running – UTMB. If you’re heading that way, you probably know all about what we’ve selected this week but it’s never too late to learn something new. If you’re not, but you would
7 articles on jitters, walking, learning to run, high altitude, poles and Goldilocks Read More »
Last updated: 24-Aug-18 By Alfie Pearce-Higgins Few topics divide opinion among endurance runners more than its transition into a full-blown commercial sport. The professionalisation of ultra running – good or bad? It will be amateur runners who decide. In November this year some of the world’s greatest mountain runners will travel to Oman. The improbable
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Last updated: 19-Oct-18 By Simon Mesner Undertaking an ultra event, even for an experienced athlete, presents a major challenge and requires plenty of preparation that will have a major impact on many, if not all, elements of the participant’s life. The more effectively the athlete is prepared, the more likely that their performance will be
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Last updated: 24-Aug-18 By Elsa Trujillo In honour of one of our running heroes who, yet again, smashed another record, this week, our selection of running articles is very much mountain-based. Our Kilianesque selection includes the man himself explaining his humble running kit, and some advice on training for the mountains on the flats or
Last updated: 26-Oct-18 By Elsa Trujillo Although heat is still a theme, it’s getting hotter in the northern hemisphere as we speak, this week our curated sample of great ultra running articles from the web includes a great video of trail running in Norway, a much discussed debate on which physiology is best suited for
7 articles on female winners, mindfulness, running slow, anxiety, heat and DNFs Read More »
Last updated: 24-Aug-18 By Elsa Trujillo Late spring and early summer are busy weeks for ultra runners, with the global calendar crammed with crazy long distance events. So for this week’s selection of ultra running web reading, we have some very relatable themes. There’s an article on sweating and hydration, and two more on how
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Last updated: 24-Aug-18 By Elsa Trujillo Our latest selection of articles and videos from the web cover a range of themes. First, we have a short film starring Robbie Britton, one of the top names in ultra running. A Londoner, he now lives in Chamonix to train in the mountains all year long. We also
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