Planning your race season can be very exciting and inspiring. No matter if the "big race” is your very first ultramarathon, or if it’s just another ultra you couldn’t refrain from signing up for — you need to make a solid plan for your race season and preferably also some “training races” along the way.
Read MoreRunning in the loneliness of the darkness in the Arctic has made Anna Carlsson stronger than most. This weekend she’ll will be one of the elite runners of the Quarantine Backyard Ultra, where she’ll be running on a frozen lake in temperatures below 20°F/-6°C.
Read MoreBeing on a runstreak, or a running streak as some call it, means that you run at least 1 mile per day. The concept is becoming increasingly popular, but why? What are the benefits of a runstreak? We asked runstreakers and collected our own thoughts on this subject.
Read MoreSo you’ve just finished a long ultramarathon. Congratulations! But how do you make the recovery period as short and productive as possible? We’ve got a few tips for you and to make it a bit easier, they appear in the order you should apply them, starting even before race day.
Read MoreThere is no definite right or wrong when it comes to training as an ultrarunner. However, there are a few guidelines that are beneficial for anyone who wants to enhance their endurance levels. The definition of ultrarunning is quite straight-forward — it basically means that you run any distance longer than a marathon, that is, 42 195 m. In other words, anyone who runs beyond these numbers is an ultrarunner.
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