Ultrarunning: Keeping Up Your Energy with the Right Fuel

This article is part of Endurance Planet’s ultrarunning article series. If you have questions, comments or feedback about “Keeping Up Your Energy with the Right Fuel”, please leave it below in the comments section… It is a given that to successfully accomplish an ultramarathon you need to fuel up with the right food and drink. [...]

Ultrarunning: Preparing for High Altitude Races

This article is part of Endurance Planet’s ultrarunning article series. If you have questions, comments or feedback about “Preparing for High Altitude Races”, please leave it below in the comments section… High altitude marathons are no doubt one of the most difficult races out there. And it’s not just the uniquely challenging topography that has [...]

Ultrarunning: Best Practices for Heat and Humidity

This article is part of Endurance Planet’s ultrarunning article series. If you have questions, comments or feedback about “Best Practices for Heat and Humidity”, please leave it below in the comments section… If you’ll be joining an ultramarathon that will be held in a hot and humid environment, then you must realize that you’ll need [...]

Ultrarunning: Acclimatizing to Heat

This article is part of Endurance Planet’s ultrarunning article series. If you have questions, comments or feedback about “Acclimatizing to Heat”, please leave it below in the comments section… Heat is one of the many formidable forces a runner will have to confront during an ultramarathon. This will particularly be challenging to deal with if [...]

Ultrarunning: Hydration Fluid Choices for Ultramarathons

This article is part of Endurance Planet’s ultrarunning article series. If you have questions, comments or feedback about “Hydration Fluid Choices for Ultramarathons”, please leave it below in the comments section… Providing variety to your drinks is one smart way of encouraging proper hydration during ultramarathons. After all, you’re already subjecting yourself to insanely difficult [...]

Ultrarunning: Hydration Techniques for Optimum Performance

This article is part of Endurance Planet’s ultrarunning article series. If you have questions, comments or feedback about “Hydration Techniques for Optimum Performance”, please leave it below in the comments section… One’s success in ultras is determined by one’s preparedness for the grueling race. And preparedness doesn’t only mean possessing the strength and the endurance [...]

Ultrarunning: Hydration

This article is part of Endurance Planet’s ultrarunning article series. If you have questions, comments or feedback about “Hydration”, please leave it below in the comments section… The need for sufficient and timely hydration during ultramarathons cannot be overstated. And runners need more than just the usual intake of fluids if they are to survive [...]

Ultrarunning: Working with a Coach

This article is part of Endurance Planet’s ultrarunning article series. If you have questions, comments or feedback about “Working with a Coach”, please leave it below in the comments section… Ultrarunning is a very personal sport. Almost the entire time in the race the runner is alone, navigating the terrain. This unique appeal of ultrarunning [...]

Ultrarunning: Recovering after an Ultra

This article is part of Endurance Planet’s ultrarunning article series. If you have questions, comments or feedback about “Recovering after an Ultra”, please leave it below in the comments section… Recovery or the period that comes immediately after the racing event is just as important as the build up and preparation that leads to it. [...]

Legends of triathlon podcast unveiled

Hosts of popular ironman based podcast IMTalk John Newsom and Bevan James Eyles, have launched their new podcast “Legends of Triathlon <http://www.legendsoftriathlon.com/> ”. The monthly show will take in an in-depth interview with the most prominent figures across all disciplines of triathlon, from the celebrated athletes to those more involved behind the scenes of the [...]

Ultrarunning: The Cross-Training Value of Swimming

This article is part of Endurance Planet’s ultrarunning article series. If you have questions, comments or feedback about “The Cross-Training Value of Swimming”, please leave it below in the comments section… Much argument has been thrown around about the cross-training value of swimming. But there’s no denying that swimming can be an option of an [...]

Ultrarunning: Including Aqua Jogging in Your Training

This article is part of Endurance Planet’s ultrarunning article series. If you have questions, comments or feedback about “Including Aqua Jogging in Your Training”, please leave it below in the comments section… Aqua jogging started out in the US in the field of physical therapy and was used as an exercise for recovering surgery patients. [...]

Ultrarunning: Weight Training for Ultramarathons

This article is part of Endurance Planet’s ultrarunning article series. If you have questions, comments or feedback about “Weight Training for Ultramarathons”, please leave it below in the comments section… Just like all the other athletes, ultrarunners can benefit from cross-training. The long run is your fundamental workout as the extreme distances you’ll be facing [...]

Ultrarunning: Overcoming Burn Out

This article is part of Endurance Planet’s ultrarunning article series. If you have questions, comments or feedback about “Overcoming Burn Out”, please leave it below in the comments section… You know the saying that begins “Too much of a good thing…” Running is a beneficial form of exercise and a widely popular sport. But just [...]

Ultrarunning: Overtraining

This article is part of Endurance Planet’s ultrarunning article series. If you have questions, comments or feedback about “Overtraining”, please leave it below in the comments section… Training takes your capacities as close to its limits as possible for the purpose of stimulating your body to adapt to the pressure. This is how you gradually [...]

Ultrarunning: Finding the Time to Train

This article is part of Endurance Planet’s ultrarunning article series. If you have questions, comments or feedback about “Finding the Time to Train”, please leave it below in the comments section… Browsing through the web, you will find no lack of suggested training schedules and programs for practically every type of marathon from the half [...]

Ultrarunning: Preventing Quadriceps Injury

This article is part of Endurance Planet’s ultrarunning article series. If you have questions, comments or feedback about “Preventing Quadriceps Injury”, please leave it below in the comments section… You’re going downhill and you’re feeling a little relief despite the fatigue because it’s the last hill of the course. Then the pain in your legs [...]

Ultrarunning: The Immune System of Ultrarunners

This article is part of Endurance Planet’s ultrarunning article series. If you have questions, comments or feedback about “The Immune System of Ultrarunners”, please leave it below in the comments section… It has been studied and proven that an average person can boost his immune system with adequate amounts of moderate exercise. So why is [...]

Ultrarunning: Tracking Your Training via Points

This article is part of Endurance Planet’s ultrarunning article series. If you have questions, comments or feedback about “Tracking Your Training via Points”, please leave it below in the comments section… Documentation is an important part of any training program. The benefits of training, especially endurance oriented workouts, don’t usually become noticeable until after some [...]

Ultrarunning: Training on Treadmills

This article is part of Endurance Planet’s ultrarunning article series. If you have questions, comments or feedback about “Training on Treadmills”, please leave it below in the comments section… Runners don’t always have the time or opportunity to practice their craft on the roads, trails and other outdoor courses. The weather is not something that’s [...]

Ultrarunning: Tapering for Optimal Performance

This article is part of Endurance Planet’s ultrarunning article series. If you have questions, comments or feedback about “Tapering for Optimal Performance”, please leave it below in the comments section… The taper is more than just a much needed rest after all that hard training. It is a critical period where the ultrarunner must find [...]

Ultrarunning: Intervals in Ultramarathon Training

This article is part of Endurance Planet’s ultrarunning article series. If you have questions, comments or feedback about “Intervals in Ultramarathon Training”, please leave it below in the comments section… More often than not intervals are narrowly associated with development of leg speed. Perhaps this is due to the fact that it’s short and middle [...]

Ultrarunning: Basic Principles of the Lydiard Method

This article is part of Endurance Planet’s ultrarunning article series. If you have questions, comments or feedback about “Basic Principles of the Lydiard Method”, please leave it below in the comments section… If you’ve been doing a fair amount of reading on marathon training then you must have come across this name Arthur Lydiard. Among [...]

2011 Great Cranberry Island Ultramarathon (Will Run for Lobster)

A lot of people visit Maine for the lobster.  On Saturday, July 16, my wife Ruth and I, joined by more than 70 other runners and their friends, traveled in search of lobster all the way to tiny Great Cranberry Island.   We found the lobster, but only after we ran the 5th Annual Great Cranberry [...]

Ultrarunning: Why You Need the Long Run

This article is part of Endurance Planet’s ultrarunning article series. If you have questions, comments or feedback about “Why You Need the Long Run”, please leave it below in the comments section… Ask any runner if the long run is the most important session of marathon training and they’ll all likely answer in the affirmative. [...]

Ultrarunning: Building Up Your Speed for Ultras

This article is part of Endurance Planet’s ultrarunning article series. If you have questions, comments or feedback about “Building Up Your Speed for Ultras”, please leave it below in the comments section… On the surface it may seem a bit contradictory that you would have to do speed work for ultras. This is the kind [...]

Ultrarunning: 100 Miles in a Week

This article is part of Endurance Planet’s ultrarunning article series. If you have questions, comments or feedback about “100 Miles in a Week”, please leave it below in the comments section… Have you ever accomplished a training mileage of 100 miles in a week? You may have heard of ultrarunners doing well enough in 100-milers [...]

Ultrarunning: The Low Mileage Runner

This article is part of Endurance Planet’s ultrarunning article series. If you have questions, comments or feedback about “The Low Mileage Runner”, please leave it below in the comments section… Finishing a 100 mile ultramarathon with just an average training mileage of 20 to 30 miles per week – is that even possible? Actually it [...]

How To Train Your Brain for Endurance Sports Success

This is a guest post from Renegade Triathlon Psychology coach Stephen Ladd (pictured right), who has taken a somewhat unorthodox path to becoming one of most sought after gurus in the world when it comes to training your brain for peak performance. His formal education in the States included undergraduate studies in psychology, religion, and philosophy, [...]

Ultrarunning: Training Guidelines for a 100k

This article is part of Endurance Planet’s ultrarunning article series. If you have questions, comments or feedback about “Training Guidelines for a 100k”, please leave it below in the comments section… Among the various ultramarathons, the 100k is perhaps one of the more popular types. Around 200 races of this distance are organized annually across [...]

Ultrarunning: Training for Ultras through Marathons

This article is part of Endurance Planet’s ultrarunning article series. If you have questions, comments or feedback about “Training for Ultras through Marathons”, please leave it below in the comments section… There are those who would argue that training for ultras through marathons may offer little advantage since marathons are shorter and are usually run [...]

Endurance Planet Releases Big Book of Bravado – Tales of Extreme Endurance: Volume 1

Are You Ready To Be Inspired? Get ready for amazing tales of extreme endurance from athletes around the globe. These aren’t pros or elites – these are people just like you who have decided to step outside their comfort zone and attempt to achieve the extraordinary. Congratulations to the Endurance Planet listeners and readers who [...]

Ultrarunning: Advancing to 100 Milers from 50

This article is part of Endurance Planet’s ultrarunning article series. If you have questions, comments or feedback about “Advancing to 100 Milers from 50 ”, please leave it below in the comments section… To advance from running 50 mile ultras to 100 milers is definitely a big step. It’s one you can’t take lightly if [...]

Ultrarunning: Difference between Marathons and 50 Milers

This article is part of Endurance Planet’s ultrarunning article series. If you have questions, comments or feedback about “Difference between Marathons and 50 Milers”, please leave it below in the comments section… On the surface it may seem like the only notable difference between a standard marathon and a 50 Miler is distance. But those [...]

Ultrarunning: 50 Miler Training Tips

This article is part of Endurance Planet’s ultrarunning article series. If you have questions, comments or feedback about “50 Miler Training Tips”, please leave it below in the comments section… Training for a 50 miler is never easy. And part of the difficulty is that sometimes books and even veteran ultra runners give out conflicting [...]

Ultrarunning: Pointers for the Ultramarathon Beginner

This article is part of Endurance Planet’s ultrarunning article series. If you have questions, comments or feedback about “Pointers for the Ultramarathon Beginner”, please leave them below in the comments section… So you’ve decided to participate in an ultramarathon. Good for you! Do you know what you’re getting yourself into? People who enter this sport [...]

Announcing Your New Endurance Planet Bookstore…

Your brand new Endurance Planet bookstore has arrived, with a huge range of instantly downloadable electronic titles that you can now get at the fraction of the price of a hard copy book! You can visit the Endurance Planet bookstore now by clicking here. The bookstore includes our book “Pick Of The Week”: It’s All About [...]

Pre-Race Calm Exercise

As a service to Endurance Planet listeners, we present you with this 5-minute relaxation exercise to put you in the proper mindset to train and race effectively—without undue anxiety. Thanks to Karen Dubs of Flexible Warrior.

Webinar: Racing at High Altitude

Want to learn the best way to train for a race at high altitude? What steps to take when you arrive? Pitfalls to avoid? Join Endurance Planet’s Kevin Patrick and Assistant Professor Scott Drum of Western State College of Colorado and the Gunnison Endurance Project for this FREE webinar sponsored by AltoLab Portable Altitude Simulator. Drum will discuss changes that take place in the body at high altitude, ways to tease the body in preparation for the event, nutritional options, and more. This is an opportunity to interact with the hosts and ask questions in an informal environment.

Johan Bruyneel on Lance, Contador, and Ironman

Johan Bruyneel knows how to win. As a coach and team manager, he’s been a part of 9 Tour de France victories—7 with the man he calls a “brother”, Lance Armstrong, and 2 with Alberto Contador. So when Bruyneel gave the keynote address recently at USA Triathlon’s International Art and Science of Coaching Symposium, it seemed everyone was listening. And Bruyneel didn’t disappoint.

PBJs’ and Character Flaws

“It’s been said that there are two kinds of people: Those that blame others for their faults and those that blame themselves. I’m convinced runners fall into the latter category. This is not always smart.”

Becoming an Ultramarathoner: An Endurance Planet Workshop

You’ve read about ultramarathoning.  You’ve heard the stories about ultramarathoning.  Perhaps you or some of your friends have given it a try with varying degrees of success. Well, now it’s time to learn how to succesfully complete an ultramarathon: a 50k. Endurance coach Karl Keltner Planet invites you to join host Kevin Patrick for an [...]

The Ten Commandments of Endurance

There is, perhaps, no one more qualified to speak on the subject of endurance than 58-year-old Marshall Ulrich of Idaho Springs, Colorado. Outside Magazine once dubbed him the “Endurance King”–and for good reason. In 2008 he ran 3,063 miles across America in just 52-and-a-half days. That’s equal to 117 marathons. He has won the Badwater Ultramarathon. four times. And he has climbed the tallest summit on each continent–a feat known as The Seven Summits.

A motivational speaker, Ulrich recalls being asked to address a group of Navy Seals in 2007.

“And I said to myself, ‘What can I give these guys?’ You know, for instance, they throw them out in the water and they’re struggling for their lives…’what can they think about? What can I give them to help them?’ The same thing holds true for our lives. What can we have in hand that will help us deal with things?”

That’s when Ulrich wrote his Ten Commandments of Endurance, which he shares with Endurance Planet.