Your Ultra-Training Bag of Tricks: Sprint-Based, Hill, and Predictor Workouts
August 7, 2012 by Ian Torrence · 7 Comments
How, when, and why to include sprint-based, hill, and predictor workouts in your ultramarathon training.
Your Ultra-Training Bag of Tricks: Speed-Based Workouts
July 3, 2012 by Ian Torrence · 12 Comments
Why and how to use speed-based workouts in your ultramarathon training.
Improving Running Economy
March 16, 2011 by Bill Henderson, MD · 38 Comments
A look at why you want to improve your running economy and how to do it.
The Religion of Running Technique
March 14, 2011 by Bill Henderson, MD · 99 Comments
An exploration of various foot strike patterns, running methods, and their effects.
It's Time To Run Your First Ultramarathon!
September 17, 2009 by Bryon Powell · 16 Comments
Folks, I apologize for the slow week on iRunFar. After pacing at and covering the Wasatch 100 last Friday, I decided to end the iRunFar Summer Roadtrip a few days early. While setting up the new iRunFar Worldwide Headquarters in the Sierra Nevada foothills, I’ve been busy helping new coaching students and working on a [...]
A Plea to Dean Karnazes – Take a Break!
August 30, 2009 by Bryon Powell · 22 Comments
[Update: While the below is a sincere plea to Mr. Karnazes, the broader purpose of the post is to highlight the issues of over running or over racing. Below my letter, I discuss one of my own episodes of over racing and invite other readers to discuss their own battles with the same.] Dear Mr. [...]
Runners, New Activities, and Injury
May 5, 2009 by Bryon Powell · 10 Comments
As runners, we tend to be pretty confident in our physical fitness … and we should be. Many of us also tend to be pretty focused individuals – how else do you explain the drive to get in the miles when you’re tired, it’s 35 F and raining, and your friends are going out for [...]
Food for Marathon des Sables
March 23, 2009 by Bryon Powell · 15 Comments
A sample nutritional plan for running the Marathon des Sables.
Heat Acclimation for Runners: A Coach’s Analysis
February 26, 2009 by Bryon Powell · 18 Comments
Trail runners and ultramarathoners are groups that like to take on challenges. The tougher, the better, right? In a quest for new and tougher challenges we go longer, higher, hillier, and sometimes hotter. If we choose to face the heat, it may be appropriate to apply various degrees of heat acclimation. The type and degree [...]
How to Run Trails!
December 17, 2008 by Bryon Powell · 9 Comments
“How to Run Trails!” That’s about as ambitious a post title as you’ll ever see here at iRunFar… but today we share resources from some masters of the sport that we’ve collected over the past few months. While we could throw in our two cents on how to run trails (and likely will), it would [...]
