Training to run a multi-day ultra is one thing. Training to run a self-supported ultra over a week is something else entirely. I’m preparing for a 168-mile, seven-day event in September, and I’m either confident or foolish enough to believe I can log enough back-to-back long runs over the next two months, toughen my mental resolve and unlock the keys to nutrition and hydration to go the distance. To date, I have run one 100K and a handful of 50-milers.
Training For a Self-Supported Stage Race
Monday, July 2, 2012
A Trail Runner's Blog: Cruising the Black Hills 100m
Last weekend, I had the pleasure of joining 300+ runners for the second running of the Black Hills 100 Mile Run in Sturgis, SD, on a hot and sunny day. The views and trails were simply stunning, and although the course got the best of me (I dropped at mile 50), I had a great weekend meeting new friends and experiencing these wonderful and mystical mountains.
A Trail Runner's Blog: Cruising the Black Hills 100m
A Trail Runner's Blog: Cruising the Black Hills 100m
Life to the Utmost: Timothy Olson’s 2012 Western States 100 Race Report
As I laid awake in my bed, buzzing with anticipation, just hours before the start of Western States I could feel the ground quivering with what was to come. I felt the walls and bed board rattling and it wasn’t my neighbors having a good time, either. There was a tiny earthquake around 8:30 Friday night, and even the mountains were trembling with excitement for the race to begin.
Life to the Utmost: Timothy Olson’s 2012 Western States 100 Race Report
Life to the Utmost: Timothy Olson’s 2012 Western States 100 Race Report
Sunday, July 1, 2012
Portrait of the Western States 100 Course Records
In honor of Timothy Olson’s and Ellie Greenwood’s course record-setting runs at the 2012 Western States 100, here’s a tribute to the history of the Western States course records.
Portrait of the Western States 100 Course Records
Portrait of the Western States 100 Course Records
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Origins of U.S. Olympic Team - ESPNHS
For most of USA Track and Field's recently minted team members for the upcoming Olympics Games, their path to London first traveled through California, whether it be via the high school route, the collegiate path, or both.
Through Friday's finals, former Golden State preps have accounted for more than twice the Olympic Team membership than that of any other state.
Origins of U.S. Olympic Team - ESPNHS
Through Friday's finals, former Golden State preps have accounted for more than twice the Olympic Team membership than that of any other state.
Origins of U.S. Olympic Team - ESPNHS
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Patience: Ellie Greenwood’s 2012 Western States 100 Race Report
Sometimes running your best is about not running at all, or at least knowing when not to run yet having the faith in the running you have already done in the months leading up to a big race. This could not have been more true for me before this weekend’s Western States 100 miler. I had raced a hard 89km downhill effort on roads just 20 days prior (Comrades), yet for any ultra runner a 20-day taper into a race seems unfathomably long
Patience: Ellie Greenwood’s 2012 Western States 100 Race Report
Patience: Ellie Greenwood’s 2012 Western States 100 Race Report
Tim Noakes on the Serious Problem of Overhydration in Endurance Sports | Outdoor Adventure Blog | OutsideOnline.com
South African exercise scientist Dr. Tim Noakes wants to change the way endurance athletes think about hydration. He believes that, over the course of the last 30 years, people have been scared into drinking too much fluid while exercising. As a result, he says performance has suffered and people have died. He’s counted a dozen deaths in endurance events caused by exercise-associated hyponatremia, a condition that results when athletes drink too much fluid.
Tim Noakes on the Serious Problem of Overhydration in Endurance Sports | Outdoor Adventure Blog | OutsideOnline.com
Tim Noakes on the Serious Problem of Overhydration in Endurance Sports | Outdoor Adventure Blog | OutsideOnline.com
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Footfeathers: How to be an Ultra Pacer - Part 3 "Case Study"
Ok, now that we all have a grasp of how unglamorous pacing truly is (travel on your own dime, taking time off work, telling a grown person when to eat, often moving at a pace that makes you feel as though time is actually going backwards, and watching your runner cross the line to loud applause, hugs, medal, buckle, and other accolades while you stand alone off to the side, soup broth stains on your shirt, picking burrs out of your socks, and wondering where you can get a beer at 4 o'clock in the morning), we can now look at a case study in the form of one's pacing duties at Western States 100 from last weekend.
Footfeathers: How to be an Ultra Pacer - Part 3 "Case Study"
Footfeathers: How to be an Ultra Pacer - Part 3 "Case Study"
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