An accomplished ultramarathon runner from Australia was stripped of her bronze medal and trophy wins in a recent 50-mile race. This was after the organizers discovered that 47-year-old Joasia Zakrzewski had used a car for a portion of the race course. Zakrzewski finished third in the...
I’ve found a few things that seem to consistently work for me, and during a race, I'll only eat and drink those things. So I keep it really really simple during an ultra: Honey Stinger waffles and chews, and then mashed potatoes. I make them the day before with just instant mashed...
Well done by all! Oil Creek 100 Race Report: Going Solo for 5th Place Submitted by John Fegyveresi Check out John’s blog to a great runner with some amazing stories http://lakewoodhiker.blogspot.com/ Somehow my legs had it in them this weekend. I […] ...
Because after covering 90 km in less than 12 hours, there’s nothing a runner wants less than to climb or (worse) descend stairs, and especially a stadium full of them. On the bright side, thanks to the mild weather I was in better post-race shape than last year when I’d been ...
When you’re living in a city and training in a city, you don’t have the same physical stimulus as you get running up and down mountains. So it’s important to build up your muscles. You want strong glutes, quads, hamstrings and core, so that on race day you don’t blow up on...
Everyone was all a-buzz with the news that KM, the world record holder in 100 mile race wins was there to run the 100 miler. Everyone wondered if KM, at 51-years old, would break the course record, set the previous year by a 22-year old. (Note: I was completely clueless about ...
He’d prepared to run more than 24 hours. Eighteen, it turned out, was more than enough. Hugh Beedell won the race shortly before 2 a.m. on Sunday morning after completing just over 120 kilometres. Photo courtesy Stephen Harris READ MORE: •...
Stephen Harris of the Nelson Running Club, which organized the new event, said he likes the format because it encourages a variety of athletes. Some, like Beedell, might be running for longer than a day. But most were there to set a new personal distance record in a race that...
STEVE PHINNEY: The surprising thing about this year’s Western 100 race, which also surprised the people who organized the race, is that it this year for the first time a low-carb runner — an openly professed low-carb runner, won the race. ...