Debut Ultra Marathon It’s all in the preparation. And for me, it was mostly mental preparation. In short: Think about your full marathon training. Now reverse everything. This was a learning curve or rather an unlearning curve.
If I come to ask you questions like “hey what’s your training plan? how are are you gonna run this sunday? What are you doing on the track this week? Any planned tempo run this Friday? What’s your planned mileage
Harrisson’s excellent article on the sub 3 hour marathon target, brings us to the very clear point that something has to change when there is no progress. However, it needs to be asked, how many times should you hit your
You have been accumulating mileage in your legs. You’re getting faster and faster, hitting PBs from 5k to the marathon. You’ve been using the same method of training that has been working pretty well so far, easy runs, track intervals once
If novice runners were swimming the way they ran, I would say that most would need to be rescued from the water. One of the biggest pitfalls of running without any advice or coaching is the lack of efficient breathing.
Bubbles float to the top of the blue plastic water container as my cup slowly fills. Another day at the office.