UltraRunning Magazine

UltraRunning Magazine reports the overall number of ultra finishes each February in our annual UltraRunners of the Year (UROY) issue. Due to last year’s drop in participation because of race cancellations, we had very limited data to report which mad

Laura Kantor help@ultrarunning.com Heather Pola heatherp@ultrarunning.com Karl Hoagland karlh@ultrarunning.com Amy Clark amyc@ultrarunning.com Donald Buraglio Cory Smith Carly Koerner Hayley Pollack Courtney Drewsen Peter Gagarin, Fred Pilon, Stan Wa

Most athletes are familiar with the main concept behind training where once a stress is placed on the body, the body then rebuilds and improves during a recovery period. However, there’s a lot of room for interpretation on what’s best for maximizing

Throughout the months of training for your first ultra, your race director was also hard at work putting together the pieces in order to make a great race. All that goes into making a runner’s experience the very best possible isn’t something I fully

When I teach my students about carbohydrate use for energy production during exercise, the discussion always starts with where, how much and what form carbohydrate is stored in the body. Carbohydrate is stored in three locations: as glucose in the bl

Baseball Hall of Famer Yogi Berra said it best, “Baseball is 90% mental. The other half is physical.” In ultrarunning, we know it takes much more than physical fitness to do well in races. Rooted even deeper than critical components of the sport like

The Last Annual Vol State road race is a 314-mile race across Tennessee. Although it has no aid stations, runners can enter it with or without a crew, and logic would dictate that the runners with crews enjoy a significant advantage. Yet, after 15 ye

Mental health isn’t a sexy topic. It comes with some murkiness and it brings up emotions in everyone—athlete or not. I can only talk from my own experience, but I have appreciated the openness and vulnerability that people are starting to share with

My goal 100-miler for the summer is just a couple of weeks away, which means my head is spinning with details and my stomach feels jumpy when I re-read the course description for the umpteenth time. I’m revising lists for my drop bags and trying not