Today's athlete question is about calories per hour needed for utra distance running. I will be looking at calorie burn rate versus calorie absorption rate. What to do about the calorie shortfall and how to tap secondary energy sources. These are my opinions and what works for me and the athletes that I coach.
Today's athlete question deals with the best calorie balance between macro nutrients for both weight loss and marathon training. This video shares my opinion on the matter.
Today's athlete question deals with how to choose a direction for a circular trail. In the scenario when you have a hill with smooth forest roads on the one side and gnarly technical single track on the other.... Do you use the technical single track for the uphill or downhill part of your run? This video gives my opinion on which is the best choice to make.
Today's athlete question deals with what needs to happen before you can define yourself as an ultra runner? With Apps like STRAVA these days, is it necessary to complete an organized event that is longer than a marathon - or is it simply a case of doing a run that is further than marathon distance... That is the question... This video is my opinion on the matter.
There has been so much written about how sugar is evil, how you need to cut sugar from each and every thing that you ingest. Have you ever given any thought to why it is that athlete race fuel seems to be the biggest culprit when it comes to sugar content. This video covers my opinion on the matter and offer alternatives to sugary gels and sports drinks.
Today's athlete question deals with the importance of cross training for distance runners. Running is a higher impact activity and choosing your cross training activities carefully will allow you to continue building fitness by having more workouts and active recovery sessions than you would be able to manage just from running. This is what I do for cross training.
Today's athlete question is on the theme of questions that I see in my inbox weekly. Fat adapted running. What are the benefits for the average you and I? Will it make us faster or healthier? This video covers my opinions on the matter.
Today's athlete question deals with PED's - Performance Enhancing Drugs. Do they exist in trail and ultra running? And are there any performance benefits for trail and ultra runners? It seems as if steroid use in trail running is less than swimming, athletics, cycling, baseball, etc. So the question arises how will widespread steroid use be kept out of tail running? This video gives my opinion about what needs to be done.
Today's video deals with optimum eating / nutrition in order to get your best possible athletic performance. We all intrinsically know what are the best nutrition choices that we need to make. However, the question always remains "how to" make the jump start to better health. This video outlines my strategy on how to jump start your health.
Today's athlete question deals with a big frustration of using a hydration pack - how to stop that awful sloshing around noise while you run. The solution is simpler than you might think. This video shares the solution that I use to solve the problem.
This athlete question deals with how much fluid to carry on long runs and organized races. This is my take on the delicate balance between the weight of your hydration pack, the elevation gain, time lost refilling your hydration pack and not running dry mid run or mid way between aid stations.
Today's athlete question deals with almonds and cashews as athlete fuel for long runs. These nutrition choices are high in fats and proteins and therefore ideal for athletes that are jumping on the ketosis bandwagon. I tried almonds and cashews as athlete fuel on one of my long runs and this video gives you my conclusions following my personal experience.
Today's athlete question deals with stepping from your first marathon to your first 50 mile ultramarathon in just five months. Is it possible for anybody? What strategy is needed when building a training program around this ambitious goal. This video covers my opinions on the training needed to move from marathon to 50 mile ultra in just 5 months.
Today's athlete question is all about aerobic base training. More specifically, are there any nutrition choices that I would choose in order to get the most from my aerobic base training block. This video deals with my opinions on nutrition choices during the aerobic base training phase of my training program.
Today's athlete question is about double run day workouts. The double run day is a unique beast and something that I do not put into an athlete training program regularly. This is totally different to when you split one of your runs into two so that you can fit your workouts around family or work as what normally happens over the holidays. The double run day is the combination of two full run workouts in one day. How you schedule which workout is in the morning and which is in the afternoon will determine if you come out stronger or broken. This video explains my strategy both for my own running and many of the athletes that I coach.
Today I have an athlete question about hitting a mental wall. We all know about the physical wall when our bodies run short of energy. However, a mental wall is a completely different beast. When you go to that deep dark place within your soul to get through a bad patch and there's nothing left there either... This video is my opinion on how to cope with and get through those darkest moments of the soul.
Today's question deals with that enigma of the free online training plan. Free online programs assume that you are doing only one endurance event and that at the end of their 16 or 21 week program. Real life is different. How often do you have a taper week in the middle of what should be a big training block for your key event. How do you balance these? In this video I set out my strategy for balancing the training needs of two opposing events.
Today I have an athlete question about feeling tired and run down (pardon the pun) for four or more weeks after a 100 mile ultra. This video shares my opinion as to the cause of this extended period of fatigue.
Today's athlete question is about stomach problems and / or GI issues during long runs and races. It is something that I used to experience and I am sure that many of you have experienced it too. This video is my opinion on how to resolve these issues once and for all.
Today's athlete question deals with the choice between a hot or cold bath in order to speed up your recovery process. This video is my opinion ob the matter.
Today's athlete question deals with road marathons vs trail marathons. How do the two events compare in terms of athlete recovery. In this video I discuss the two and why they tend to have differing recovery times.
Marshall is one of America's finest, yet least known, extreme endurance athletes. If you Google him, you'll find a list of accomplishments so long and varied that it will be hard to believe. But Marshall hasn't been one for self-promotion, so until recently he may be best known for having all his toenails permanently removed, rather than for anything else he's done.
Marshall's cross country run was the subject of a movie, "Running America",that I thought was a superficial look at what I knew must have been an amazing, intense effort. When I sat down to read his book, I found "Running on Empty" to be just about everything I wanted the movie to be.
Marshall goes into great detail about the challenges he faced during the run and how he overcame them. I got a much better picture of who he was, why he'd try such a thing, what he went through, and how everyone involved felt about the whole thing. Marshall shares the special moments during the trip and the exhilaration he felt when he finished, but he's not shy about discussing the downside of his dedication to complete his goal and the toll it takes on those around him. (Along the way, he also discusses some issues that help explain why the movie came out the way it did.)
He's definitely a runner who writes, not a writer who runs (unlike Christopher McDougall, who's "Born to Run" has broken out to find an audience among non-runners), but his honest and matter-of-fact writing style goes over well. Marshall doesn't make himself out to be the greatest thing since sliced bread. If anything, his straightforward writing style tends to downplay the nature of his accomplishments.
The ultimate endurance athlete, Marshall Ulrich has run more than one hundred foot races averaging over one hundred miles each, completed twelve expedition-length adventure races, and ascended the seven summits— including Mount Everest. Yet his run from California to New York—the equivalent of running two marathons and a 10k every day for nearly two months straight—proved to be his most challenging effort yet. In Running on Empty he shares the gritty backstory of his run and the excruciating punishments he endured on the road. Ulrich also reaches back nearly thirty years to when the death of his first wife drove him to run from his pain.
Ulrich’s memoir imbues an incredible read with a universal message for athletes and nonathletes alike: face the toughest challenges, overcome debilitating setbacks, and find deep fulfillment in something greater than achievement.
