Slip Sliding Away

Ski your way to top trail shape

Your leg muscles and lungs burn as you hammer up a snowy trail. Hill training has always been part ...

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Training

Off-Season Solution

Cure the winter blues with snowshoe running

Running in snowshoes along a snow-covered path surrounds you with winter's magic. ...

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Training

How Long Is Long Enough?

Ask the Coach

I've heard conflicting information about long training runs for a 100-miler. Some feel that seven-plus hours or ...

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Ultrarunning

Building an Ultra-Strong Base

Winter is the time to adopt an aerobic- and strength-conditioning program

The trails are ankle deep in slippery mud and the days are short. You may welcome these changes as an excuse ...

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Trail Tips

First 50-Miler

How to bump up from the marathon or 50K distance

If you have been curious about taking the leap from 26.2 or 31 miles (50K) to 50 miles, figuring out how to train ...

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Training

Hill Therapy

How to train for trail-running's ups and downs

The feel of your heart pounding in your chest at the top of a hill attests to the conditioning hills provide for ...

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