Last updated: 31-Oct-18 By Alice Morrison Show me the runner who doesn’t have tight hips and hamstrings…Yoga can help with strengthening, stretching and recovery. It’s great training for ultra runners. Alex Stein has been practising yoga since she was seven years old and is also a runner. Her speciality is therapeutic yoga and she is […]
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Last updated: 15-Nov-18 By Kerry Sutton Most of us are lucky enough to be able to run – it’s both natural and normal. With regards to my own running, I have been quite lucky and I am someone who works by the principle that if it ain’t broke don’t fix it. My body has to
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Last updated: 08-Mar-21 By Alice Morrison A strong core and strong legs will pay dividends when you are slogging out those miles up and down a wind-blasted or sandblasted fell. Here is a quick but very effective ultra exercise routine that will hit your core and your legs. You can do it at home or
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Last updated: 22-Aug-18 By Alice Morrison That is the question. Stretching is one of those things that quickly divides any group of runners. You rarely meet a runner who enjoys it, or who is as bendy as a piece of plasticine on a hot window ledge, but most advanced runners will incorporate some kind of
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Last updated: 21-Aug-18 By Andy Mouncey 1 The Distance Remember – it’s never the distance on its own which will kill you. What the distance does is compound the cumulative stuff you have to deal with. There’s always more than one thing happening and it will happen time and time again. This means that the stuff
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Last updated: 21-Aug-18 By Andy Mouncey Harnessing Your Emotions: Why bother? In my experience as a competitor and coach, the greater the distance of the event, the greater the role of your mental skills and your ability to manage your emotions. In the world of ultra-distance, being in the right physical shape only gets you
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Last updated: 21-Aug-18 Last week we published Andy Mouncey’s first top ten tips to make it in the world of ultra running. Here are another 10. By Andy Mouncey 11. Wish You Were Here You get more inspiring landscapes in an ultra. Unless your thing is going to be those 24 hour track races, of
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Last updated: 21-Aug-18 By Andy Mouncey 1. No Bluffing You can’t bluff in an ultra – ignore your basics and the warning signs at your peril. The stuff you can get away with over 26.2 miles can seriously compromise your performance and even cause you to DNF over 40, 50 & 100 miles. That hotspot
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