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7 articles on trail running, heroes, recipes, motivation and winning formulas

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Last updated: 19-Jul-18 By Elsa Trujillo This week we bring you a great selection of videos and articles, tips and stories to read and to watch. Some new videos from Salomon on trail running, Dell Miller’s running story, recipes for cold weather running, tips for improving your overall fitness, motivation slumps, fighting lack of motivation […]

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Renee McGregor – Performance and Clinical Dietician

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Last updated: 03-Feb-17 By James Eacott Renee who? For those few endurance athletes who do not know Renee, let me make a little introduction. Renee is a performance and Clinical Dietician who, combined with her personal love of ultra running, decided to study sports nutrition at post-graduate level. She’s since become a member of the

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7 articles on food, alcohol, anxiety, emotional attachment and immune systems

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Last updated: 19-Jul-18 By Elsa Trujillo There was probably a lot of festive eating this past December and now it’s time to focus on food for running. This week we have selected four articles that are food related, two deal with multi-stage packing, and two with healthy eating habits. But we also bring you articles

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Tips for Body Fat Control over the Holiday Season

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The holiday season is in full swing surrounding us with opportunities to consume an endless number of delicious calories together with alcohol, potentially threatening our hard earned lean body composition. This is also the season of hospitality and joviality and by following these tips for body fat control, enjoyment of the many festive treats and

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Defend Yourself. A runner’s guide to maintaining an efficient immune system

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Last updated: 19-Jul-18 By Diana Green RUNNER’S GREATEST FEAR A runner’s greatest fear is poor health compromising or even bringing to a halt their training programme. However well planned your training programme, you will only fully benefit from the regime and achieve your goals, by maintaining an efficient immune system to protect your health. Runner’s

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Runners – All you need to know about ketosis and fat adaptation

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By Amy Tribolini Many runners have been convinced that they need carbohydrates to fuel for their endurance conquests, but a new question has been circulating in the ultra running community: “Can a high fat diet also be a high performance diet?”  More elite runners are emerging with claims that fat burning, ketosis, enables them to

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7 articles on coffee, fat, disordered eating, old shoes and trail tech

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Last updated: 19-Oct-18 By Elsa Trujillo The new running season is making us feel hungry so this week’s selection is full of nutrition-based articles: what to do with coffee before a race, a warning about disordered eating, and two articles on guidance on fat-burning, one through training and one through nutrition. But we also bring

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7 articles on glycogen, speed, mountain running, health and UTMB 2016

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Last updated: 24-Oct-18 By Elsa Trujillo Autumn is but a few weeks away in the Northern Hemisphere and, in Europe, most mountain ultra running events of the summer season have packed up and are already planning their 2017 editions. In this week’s selection of articles from the web we bring you health and nutrition, some

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Increase of up to 2000 metres with very challenging climatic conditions (e.g. ice, snow, humidity, heat or at high altitude)

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Very experienced long distance ultra runners (min 3 years’ experience) or are doing regular long distance running (>50 miles) with elevation and conditions shown (where possible). Admission to these races is often subject to receipt of a recent medical examination certificate. Purchase of specialist kit is often recommended for these races.

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Increase of up to 2000 metres with some challenging climatic conditions (e.g. ice, snow, humidity or heat)

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Experienced runners who have completed at least 4 ultras in last 12 months, or are doing regular long distance running (>50 miles) with elevation and conditions shown (where possible). Admission to these races may be subject to receipt of a recent medical examination certificate. Check with the race organiser regarding entry requirements.

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Runners who have completed at least one ultra in last 6 months or are doing long distance running (>26 miles) regularly, with elevation shown.

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First ultra event. Runners completing a marathon or doing regular long distance running (>26 miles) in the last 6 months.