Really enjoy all your posts - having run Nice UTMB twice its great to see you running the prom+hills even with the ketchup! I live in quite a flat place - vert is hard to find - so I run to the gym, do 30-60mins on a stepper then run home. Keen to see how this works for TDS in August.
@@runningforviews No! Applied twice. Even with 8stones I failed this year - going for 12 stones in 2025!! The Nice UTMB and a couple of 100k runs are my major distances. Come join me at TDS :)
I wish there were more details in the nutrition aspects about what we eats. I personally avoid ultraprocessed foods and suplements, and believe there are some good options for fueling during running based in fruits and vegetables. But of course I'm fair from an elite athlete and have different focus about performance.
Haha true! I wish that he would have talked more about what he eats outside of competition. It’s probably like you were saying, just avoiding ultra processed foods and eat a lot of heathy calories.
That’s fine if you’re walking uphill. Try doing hill strides 3 times a week and hills should get a little easier. For hill strides start with 6x30 seconds at an 8% grade at Zone 4 heart rate and then week after week work up to 10x30 seconds.
'vert' is seeing more use since it's a more accurate indicator of volume for trail runnig because it scales better with work done compared to flat out mileage. If you want to get more specific about it you should at vertical distance climbed per distance travelled. eg utmb is 10000m climbed for 171 km, this gives us approx 58m of climbing/km wser for example is 5500m for 161 km giving 34m / km. So one could argue wser is an easier and more runnable course.
