This article is part of Endurance Planet’s ultrarunning article series. If you have questions, comments or feedback about “Basic Principles of the Lydiard Method”, please leave it below in the comments section… If you’ve been doing a fair amount of reading on marathon training then you must have come across this name Arthur Lydiard. Among Read More

This article is part of Endurance Planet’s ultrarunning article series. If you have questions, comments or feedback about “Why You Need the Long Run”, please leave it below in the comments section… Ask any runner if the long run is the most important session of marathon training and they’ll all likely answer in the affirmative. Read More

This article is part of Endurance Planet’s ultrarunning article series. If you have questions, comments or feedback about “Building Up Your Speed for Ultras”, please leave it below in the comments section… On the surface it may seem a bit contradictory that you would have to do speed work for ultras. This is the kind Read More

This article is part of Endurance Planet’s ultrarunning article series. If you have questions, comments or feedback about “100 Miles in a Week”, please leave it below in the comments section… Have you ever accomplished a training mileage of 100 miles in a week? You may have heard of ultrarunners doing well enough in 100-milers Read More

This article is part of Endurance Planet’s ultrarunning article series. If you have questions, comments or feedback about “The Low Mileage Runner”, please leave it below in the comments section… Finishing a 100 mile ultramarathon with just an average training mileage of 20 to 30 miles per week – is that even possible? Actually it Read More

This article is part of Endurance Planet’s ultrarunning article series. If you have questions, comments or feedback about “Training Guidelines for a 100k”, please leave it below in the comments section… Among the various ultramarathons, the 100k is perhaps one of the more popular types. Around 200 races of this distance are organized annually across Read More

This article is part of Endurance Planet’s ultrarunning article series. If you have questions, comments or feedback about “Training for Ultras through Marathons”, please leave it below in the comments section… There are those who would argue that training for ultras through marathons may offer little advantage since marathons are shorter and are usually run Read More

This article is part of Endurance Planet’s ultrarunning article series. If you have questions, comments or feedback about “Advancing to 100 Milers from 50 ”, please leave it below in the comments section… To advance from running 50 mile ultras to 100 milers is definitely a big step. It’s one you can’t take lightly if Read More

This article is part of Endurance Planet’s ultrarunning article series. If you have questions, comments or feedback about “Difference between Marathons and 50 Milers”, please leave it below in the comments section… On the surface it may seem like the only notable difference between a standard marathon and a 50 Miler is distance. But those Read More

This article is part of Endurance Planet’s ultrarunning article series. If you have questions, comments or feedback about “50 Miler Training Tips”, please leave it below in the comments section… Training for a 50 miler is never easy. And part of the difficulty is that sometimes books and even veteran ultra runners give out conflicting Read More