Lane and Jennifer Vogel are not your ordinary couple. They’ve done Badwater, Marathon de Sables, multiple Ironmans (including Kona for Jennifer), and some. It wasn’t always this way with them, though. About 10 years they went from being relatively non-athletic to pursuing endurance sports when Jennifer got the bug to do a marathon. One thing Read More

On this episode Lucho and Tawnee answer your questions on: -ways to prevent foot drag on trail running and exercises to mimic high knee drive for strong and flexible muscles -what might be causing the consistent soreness in the calves and how to combat (mention of Mobility WOD) -a big run race schedule leading up Read More

Preventing and managing foot blisters, training and recovery between races that are close together, running long distance in Newtons vs. other shoes and foot plant, speedwork for ultras, chia for endurance training, prep for an ultra obstacle race, biking as part of a buildup for a 100-mile ultra run, training for Rim to Rim to Read More

New Ask the Ultrarunner featuring a little chat on newsworthy items including, the pooping female runner who’s been in the news, article discussion: Exercise Habits of Ultrarunners (published in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning), as well as questions to your answers on using heart rate/MAF as a guide for ultra pacing, how to figure out your Read More

How to train in the heat and prepare for a hot race and also avoid heat illnesses; exercises and techniques to mimic and train for hill running; heart rate issues and inconsistencies with MAF, LT, and HR zones; tips to overcome mental weakness, lack of confidence, decreased motivation and desire to train and race; stacking up MAF HR Read More

What do you do when you’ve lost all motivation to train, how do you stay motivated to continue training (running, biking, etc.) when you have no race planned, what to do when you’ve missed out on a lot of training (due to work, family, injury, etc) and have races coming up still, how to train between a Read More