Training science, pacing, and race strategy for trail and ultra runners.
How to build a 100K fueling plan that survives contact with a real race: carbohydrate targets per hour, why GAP changes your burn rate, and how to plan around aid stations instead of hoping.
A periodized framework for UTMB: base, specific, and taper phases built around 10,000 m of climbing, 46.5 hours of cutoff pressure, and the reality of training around a full-time life.
Grade-adjusted pace turns a hilly run into a single effort-equivalent number. Here is how it works, why steep descents cost more than runners expect, and how to use it for pacing.