This article is part of Endurance Planet’s ultrarunning article series. If you have questions, comments or feedback about “Tapering for Optimal Performance”, please leave it below in the comments section… The taper is more than just a much needed rest after all that hard training. It is a critical period where the ultrarunner must find Read More

On this special episode we talk with elite track and field distance runner, Olympic hopeful and Extreme Endurance athlete Jordan McNamara. Jordan has quite a running resume, and he’s one of the few people in the world who’s a member of the sub-4-minute-mile club. Listen in to find out all about Jordan’s T&F career, why Read More

On this episode of Endurance Planet, Ben Greenfield joins us to answer your questions on tasty and quality food for vegetarians, is it OK to eat late after a late-night workout, combining Extreme Endurance with other supplements,  post-run drinks, problems with choking down gels, nutritional myths surrounding fruit and digestive enzymes, risks of hyponatremia, and Read More

Dr. Mark Klion joins us on “Ask the Doctor” to answer your sports medicine questions, inlcuding his top 3 tips to PREVENT endurance sports-related injuries, hamstring issues, possible plantar fasciitis, gauging resting heart rate, and more! Ask your sports medicine questions on our Facebook page! Click here to download audio. Read More

This article is part of Endurance Planet’s ultrarunning article series. If you have questions, comments or feedback about “Intervals in Ultramarathon Training”, please leave it below in the comments section… More often than not intervals are narrowly associated with development of leg speed. Perhaps this is due to the fact that it’s short and middle Read More

I have a short story to share. I’ve been struggling the last fews months on my bike to left myself out of the saddle on a hard climbs or when trying to accelerate with some power. Due to all my recent surgeries and the tumors, (I have bone cancer) my right leg has been weaken and with Read More

After two seasons of racing, it seemed like a good idea to try a half iron-distance race this year. I put the Patriots Half in Williamsburg, Virginia on my B-race list. It had some extra significance, being in historic Jamestown, with the swim in the James, the day before the 10th anniversary of 9/11. Because Read More

Rudy Kahsar is the only athlete ever to win USA Triathlon’s Collegiate Nationals and Age Group Nationals in the same year. And if that’s not enough, last weekend he pulled off a second-place finish at the Hy-Vee 5150 Elite Amateur Championship race. At only 23 years old, Rudy has already had a successful career in Read More

It’s a jam-packed episode of “This Week in Multisport” with LAVA’s Brad Culp, as we wrap up the Hy-Vee professional race that took place last weekend and preview the ITU WCS Grand Final in Beijing and the Ironman 70.3 World Championships in Las Vegas. Find out podium potentials and more! Click here to download audio. Read More

Ben Greenfield joins us for this episode of Sports Nutrition to talk about his nutrition plan for this weekend’s 70.3 World Championship race in Nevada, and he answers your questions on Creatine Alpha-Ketoglutarate, managing high blood pressure and Co-Q10, kilojoules/calories per hour and refueling, amino acids during exercise, Cramp Bark for cramping, timing magnesium intake, Read More