Episode 31 - Peak Form: How to Reach It and Why You Can’t Stay There Forever
Peak form is not simply about being as fit as possible. It is the point where high fitness meets low fatigue, allowing an athlete to fully express the adaptations built over weeks and months of traini...
28 Aug 22min
Episode 30 - The Plateau Problem: Why Ultrarunners Stop Improving and How to Move Forward
In Episode 30 of The Trail Running Briefing, we explore why ultrarunners sometimes stop improving even when they are training consistently and working harder.A plateau doesn’t always mean you need mor...
21 Aug 16min
Episode 29 - When More Becomes Too Much: Burnout in Ultrarunning
Ultra running demands far more than just mileage. Long runs, back-to-backs, strength work, fuelling, recovery, work, family and everyday stress all contribute to the total load an athlete carries.In t...
14 Aug 9min
Episode 28 - Older, Wiser, Stronger: How Ultra Training Should Change With Age
Episode 28 explores how ultra training should evolve with age without lowering ambition. The central idea is the recovery budget: every long run, hard session, strength workout and race creates stress...
31 Jul 10min
Episode 27 - The Race You Didn’t Finish: Recovering from a DNF
After a DNF, remember this sequence:Feel it. Separate it. Learn from it. Then move forward.Feel the disappointment without shame. Separate the facts from the story you are telling about yourself. Extr...
24 Jul 9min
Episode 26 - The fitness that survives: How to Build Durability for 100K and 100-Mile Races
Durability is the ability to preserve your performance as fatigue accumulates during prolonged exercise. While fitness describes what you can do when fresh, durability determines how much of that fitn...
17 Jul 12min
Episode 25 - Carb Loading: Don’t Start Empty
In this episode, we cover why carb loading is not about eating a huge bowl of pasta the night before a race, but about arriving at the start line with full fuel stores. For trail and ultra runners, gl...
10 Jul 10min
Episode 24 - The Low Point Is Not the End: How to Survive the Dark Miles
In this episode, we look at one of the most important skills in ultrarunning: managing the low points. Every runner will face dark moments during an ultra, but a low point is not necessarily the end o...
3 Jul 11min
