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Training
Building the engine, the legs, and the weeks that hold them together.
How to Train for Your First 50K: A Coach's 16-Week Framework
The 50K is the most forgiving ultra you will ever run, and the one most people still get wrong. Here is the structure I use with first-timers.
9 minFrom Road to Trail: What Actually Changes
Your marathon fitness transfers. Your pace expectations do not. Here is what changes when you take a road engine onto a mountain.
7 minHow to Train for Vertical Gain
Vertical is a training load with its own budget, its own progression rate, and its own set of sessions. Most runners track neither.
7 minDownhill Running: Technique, Training, and Why Your Quads Blow Up
Climbing is fitness. Descending is skill and tissue tolerance - and it causes far more late-race collapses than any climb.
7 minZone 2 on Hills: Why Heart Rate Lies on Trails
Your heart rate on a climb is describing the hill you were on thirty seconds ago. Here is what to steer by instead.
6 minStrength Training for Trail Runners: What the Research Supports
Two sessions, thirty minutes, heavy and low-rep. It improves economy, protects your descents, and the evidence for it is unusually solid.
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