Ultra Run Coaching

Fun helping out and aid station for Stumptown 50k. Rock and roll themed aid station obviously 🙄 🤣

In endurance sport, including ultra marathon running, carbs are king/queen. Carbs are our primary fuel source and the one that allows us to perform at our best. Yes we are always burning some percentage of our calories from fat, but maintaining optimal levels of blood glucose through the regular consumption of carbs during endurance running is the only way to perform at our best.

Continue reading to learn all about why, when, and how to use carbs for optimal performance in training for and racing ultras: https://www.ultraruncoaching.com/blog/carbs-are-kingqueen

You've done all the hard training and now it's race day. How do you make sure you are fueling yourself properly to maximize performance? How do you make sure you don't succumb to GI distress and DNF your race?

Visit my website to read my article about Race Day Nutrition to Maximize Performance and Minimize GI Distress: https://www.ultraruncoaching.com/blog/race-day-nutrition-to-maximize-performance-and-minimize-gastrointestinal-distress

Let’s talk about recovery. Ultramarathon runners run big miles, lots of vert, and tough races and they quickly learn that hard training and racing requires good recovery. Without recovery we can’t reap the benefits of a great training plan with hard workouts. At best our fitness will suffer and at worst we’ll get injured or sick. When athletes think about recovery, often what comes to mind are products marketed as helping recovery like supplements, recovery drinks, pneumatic compression boots, cryotherapy chambers, percussion massagers, etc. But do these really help recovery and boost fitness? What about old school recovery tools like sleep and whole food nutrition? What role do recovery runs play and how and when are they best used?

Visit my website and read my article about Recovery for Ultrarunners: https://www.ultraruncoaching.com/blog/recovery-for-ultrarunners

As ultra runners, we all will inevitably get injured at some point. When we do get injured, what can we do to help speed up recovery?

While the internet is filled with advice, often it's not the best advice and some of it might actually slow do healing and recovery.

Visit https://www.ultraruncoaching.com/blog/running-injury-recovery and read my article about Running Injury Recovery to learn what helps and what hurts injury recovery.