Don’t Let Downhills Be Your Downfall
How to prepare to successfully run downhill in an ultramarathon.
How to prepare to successfully run downhill in an ultramarathon.
Learn why training volume is important for ultramarathoners and how you can find your optimal training volume.
Advice for new ultramarathon runners on easing intelligently into the sport.
How, when, and why to include sprint-based, hill, and predictor workouts in your ultramarathon training.
Why and how to use speed-based workouts in your ultramarathon training.
How to use stamina-based workouts, such as steady state runs, tempo intervals, and thirds progression runs, in your ultramarathon training.
The role of endurance-based workouts – long runs, easy runs, and recovery runs – in ultramarathon training.
Essential elements of ultramarathon training.
How to navigate difficult underfoot conditions when trail running.
How to train for a mountain race when you live where it’s flat.
How to recover and train between closely spaced races.
How time trials can help you improve fitness and prepare for specific race terrain.
A guide to the importance and execution of the long run in endurance running.
Understanding the elements of purposeful stress and then recovery in endurance run training.
An examination of anti-doping efforts made during 2016 in the trail and ultrarunning community.
Ian Torrence describes the purpose of and how to do gear-changing workouts.
Ian Torrence’s primer on federal-level public lands for trail runners.
Ian Torrence discusses race-specific training for different kinds of trail races and ultramarathons.
Six tests every runner should take to help monitor their health and well-being.
Ian Torrence discusses pacing, strategy, and recovery techniques for a multi-day stage race.