❝A good rule of thumb is that when you drink more, you need more sodium; as you drink less, you need less sodium. The goal is to keep fluid and sodium intake balanced […].
—Jane Maus
trailhead.ultrasignup.com/training-nut...
#running #trailrunning #ultrarunning #runsky
❝What is a key training outcome we want for a race like UTMB ? I would argue that the ability to run all the downhills and all the flatter sections should be the goal for pretty much every athlete […].
—Andy DuBois
mile27coaching.com/how-much-ver...
#running #trailrunning #ultrarunning #runsky
This right here is exactly the type of basic common sense that flies out of runners’ heads when the gun goes off.
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❝A sport that bans a non-enhancing substance on values grounds while permitting an enhancement of greater magnitude on cultural grounds isn’t defending principle. It’s defending preferences and calling them values.
—TNUS
open.substack.com/pub/tnus/p/t...
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Flatland-dwellers, rejoice! We do not need to match race vert in our training (all the time).
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❝Every step forward is an active choice, and our internal dialogue becomes a powerful tool. How we talk to ourselves during each run can be just as defining as why we chose to run in the first place.
—Lauren Klein
trailhead.ultrasignup.com/community/ba...
#running #trailrunning #ultrarunning #runsky
❝People conflate naturalness with goodness and safety, and the whole thing hinges on the belief that anything that comes from nature must be good, pure, and healthy. (Hold my arsenic, Mother Earth.)
—Zoë Rom/Sam Robinson
open.substack.com/pub/footnote...
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This article somehow has an argument I’ve made *and* one I’ve argued against, all on the same page. But this is so true:
❝Most of being a runner isn’t actually running. It’s all the stuff around it.
—Zoë Rom
trailhead.ultrasignup.com/culture/not-...
#running #trailrunning #ultrarunning #runsky
❝The question is not whether nutrient timing matters. It clearly can matter. The more important question is under what conditions timing matters and how large those effects are in real-world settings.
—A. Jeukendrup
www.mysportscience.com/post/nutrien...
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Read before You Ultra
Read before You Ultra
Read before You Ultra
❝This is that moment in every long race. It’s maybe why we do it. When we need to make a decision to continue.
—Chris Russell
runrunlive.com/drummer-hill...
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Read before You Ultra
Read before You Ultra
Read before You Ultra
Read before You Ultra
Read before You Ultra
Read before You Ultra
A practical guide to hydration for several common trail racing scenarios along with input to adapt your hydration strategy to the conditions.
There is a commonly held belief that your training vert needs to mimic your race vert. E.g. if you are training for UTMB with its 170km and 10,000m vert and running 80km a week in training, then you...
❝A good rule of thumb is that when you drink more, you need more sodium; as you drink less, you need less sodium. The goal is to keep fluid and sodium intake balanced […].
—Jane Maus
trailhead.ultrasignup.com/training-nut...
#running #trailrunning #ultrarunning #runsky
www.mysportscience.com
❝What is a key training outcome we want for a race like UTMB ? I would argue that the ability to run all the downhills and all the flatter sections should be the goal for pretty much every athlete […].
—Andy DuBois
mile27coaching.com/how-much-ver...
#running #trailrunning #ultrarunning #runsky
Few ideas in sports nutrition have been as influential, or perhaps as widely misunderstood, as the so-called "window of opportunity". During the 1990s the message appeared simple and compelling: consu...
A practical guide to hydration for several common trail racing scenarios along with input to adapt your hydration strategy to the conditions.
There is a commonly held belief that your training vert needs to mimic your race vert. E.g. if you are training for UTMB with its 170km and 10,000m vert and running 80km a week in training, then you...
