By Sarah Cooke Here at RunUltra, we love running and we love races. Ultra-runners are a diverse breed – our distances range from a bit more than a marathon to hundreds or even thousands of miles. Some of us pick one or two races a year and dedicate our training to them. Others seem to …
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By Renee McGregor “Competitiveness is a biological trait that co-evolved with the basic need for human survival.” (Sander Van Der Linden, 2015). Whilst this can be used in any context, it does explain why we, as runners, are always in search of that next challenge, next achievement and recording our training sessions to use as …
Last updated: 17-Jan-19 By Renee McGregor A new year is within throwing distance, which means we are going to be inundated with messages and headlines about the latest food and wellness trends, all promising how you can be the fittest, healthiest and happiest version of you. In all honesty though, do we really need …
Last updated: 28-Feb-19 By Alice Morrison I love men with all their strange ways and dangly bits but I have to say that – and I am truly sorry to be so stereotypically sexist in these gender fluid days – man’s ability to buy gifts for woman is often ….. variable. I’m talking asparagus steamer …
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: 29-Aug-18 By Elsa Trujillo This week’s selection of articles and videos from the web focuses on preparation for those great events you’ve all signed up for. We’ve got tips on what to eat before the big day, how to pack for a multi-stage and how to pack a bag for regular training days. …
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Last updated: 19-Oct-18 By Elsa Trujillo We’re back after the holiday break with our first selection of great article reading and video watching for the year. We have two videos, one about the epic Dragon’s Back race in Wales (UK) and a more spiritual one about runners connecting with ancestral lands in North America. We’ve …
Last updated: 19-Jul-18 By Elsa Trujillo Sometimes it’s hard to train. Discipline, purpose, (lies) and dreams are all you need to get you out there: Alice Morrison, Andy Jones-Wilkins and Nathan Dewall share their methods. This week we also bring you articles on (un)necessary gadgets, a check list for your running bag, some medical research …
Last updated: 18-Jan-18 By Diana Green The Paleo diet has received a great deal of attention recently, with many, including Dean Karnazes, using it as a good nutrition plan for runners. On the assumption that our physiology should be optimised to the diet of our evolutionary past, athletes who follow the Paleo diet believe that …
Last updated: 13-Apr-17 By Elsa Trujillo At RunUltra we know you like your top ten lists as much as anyone, so we thought we’d let you know which are the most read articles by you, our faithful newsletter recipients. If you’ve missed any of these, here’s a chance to catch up. The countdown: 10 Kilian …
