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Run Long, Race Strong
The goal of training is to deposit as much fitness as possible into your training account. Little deposits day after day add up. But once you are comfortable running almost every day and aren’t running...
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Three Strategies to Finish Fast In Your Next Trail Race
Around mile 22 of the Speedgoat 50K, held on July 29 in Utah’s rugged Wasatch Mountains, a woman in a yellow shirt pulled ahead of me and attacked a beastly climb at nearly 11,000 feet in elevation....
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Get to the Starting Line Stress-Free
This writing is excerpted from The Trail Runner’s Companion: A Step-by-Step Guide to Trail Running and Racing, From 5Ks to Ultras, by Trail Runner contributing editor Sarah Lavender Smith. The book...
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Train Your Gut to Fuel and Hydrate Better on Race Day
The stomach is a trainable organ. Just as run training helps strengthen your legs and make your cardiovascular system more efficient, nutrition training helps improve your stomach’s ability to handle...
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Blisters, Bonking and Blackened Toenails
This article originally appeared in the July 2017 issue of Trail Runner magazine. From engineered nutrition supplements to fancy GPS watches, advances in science and technology have changed the way we...
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From Couch to 100K in One Year
When people say, “Anything is possible,” they don’t truly mean anything. Some things are not going to happen anytime soon: a dog won’t win the National Spelling Bee and I won’t win a gold medal in...
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Is Your Training Unproductive?
After registering for his first trail ultramarathon, a 100K in Northern California, Ron Nowland, a consistent runner with several marathons under his belt, began tacking more miles onto his Saturday...
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Kilian’s Thoughts on Running Versus Hiking
When is hiking faster than running? Running is faster, obviously. In fact, many runners will gauge how well they felt in a race by how little they hiked or if they didn’t have to hike at all. But in...
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Party Time
The American Courtney Dauwalter looking fresh early in UTMB. The “World-Summit of Mountain Running” — UTMB — brings thousands of runners together for a giant festival in the small French town of...
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How to Train for an Ultramarathon—in a City
Ruth Croft, 31, is a Kiwi trail runner currently splitting her time between Wanaka, New Zealand, and Europe, “just trying to chase the sun and European racing scene.” She gave longer ultras a go but...
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