Running and Recovery
An explanation of recovery for and from ultramarathons.
Valuable tips on how to determine whether to and how much time to take off after running an ultramarathon.
How to use two-a-days (doubles) in training for an ultramarathon.
A guide to preparing, training, and racing ultramarathons and other endurance runs at altitude.
How to properly peak for a running race, including ultramarathons.
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.
How, when, and why to include sprint-based, hill, and predictor workouts in your ultramarathon training.
Here’s a call for race directors, youth, and the community to get involved in this new USA youth trail initiative.
Andy Wacker’s program aims to help rising trail runners who don’t currently have the benefit of sponsorships or other support structures.
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.
This research study seeks to better understand how issues surrounding proper fueling and running performance converge.
If you have COVID-19 or another illness, here are a physician’s recommendations for exercising while sick.
Here are a few books that will inspire you to start off your 2022 training year right.
How to train and prepare your logistics for the Marathon des Sables.
How to prepare your food for the Marathon des Sables.
How to prepare your kit for the Marathon des Sables.
A trail runner’s guide to mountain-lion encounters.
An ultramarathon training guide with links to a wealth of supplementary materials.
A round-up of resources on injuries, including what is an injury, how we can best recover from one, and what they mean in our lives.
A look at deciding to take, make the best use of, and transition out of a running off-season.
A report from the 2017 International Congress on Medicine & Science in Ultra-Endurance Sports.
Ian Torrence’s primer on federal-level public lands for trail runners.
The history of the hardrock mining found along the Hardrock Hundred Endurance Run course.
