Month: February 2013

“In a sprint, if you don’t have the perfect form, you’re doomed. The ultra distance forgives injury, fatigue, bad form, and illness.” Ultrarunning legend Scott Jurik says this in his recent book Eat & Run. One example? He tells the story, where he tore ligaments in the middle of the Western States 100-Mile race. He decided to continue the run and noticed that the swelling stabilised his foot. He not only completed the grim course, but also became first and did…

I am now in week 8 of my plan to become an ultra runner. Apart from week 2 it has been fairly ok. Week 2 was a bit if a disaster. A light cold, bruised hurting hip and all sort of things dampened my spirit. I wrote an endless blog post about it, but it remained unpublished. Not sure if anybody would had been interested in so much moaning. I still managed to do my 60k that week though. Now…