This is a request for some genuine advice - I have been running for 3 years and for the past year and a half i have been running hard hilly long runs on Exmoor. I manage three 3-3 and a 1/2 hour long runs a month with the fourth Sunday off. I have run for longer and I would like to go further i am slow but I really enjoy being out for a long time. Any advice how do I need to change my training in order to go further.
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There's a ultra runners' email list. It's very active, and if you subscribe then you'll be able to get loads of useful info there. To subscribe send an email to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.DARTMOUTH.EDU. The subject line doesn't matter, but the body must read:
SUBSCRIBE ULTRA firstname lastname (e.g. SUBSCRIBE ULTRA Cliff Young).
Also, see here for loads of links to ultra running stuff. It's an Aussie site, but there are lots of links to other places.
Good luck and have fun
(Wish I could run 3.5 hours x 3 per month!!)
Your first contribution has just arrived in my inbox - I recognised your nickname and thought it must be you!
It's a good, and active, email list. I don't read it regularly, but it arrives every day and from time to time I read it through.
I'm glad it was helpful. They're a very knowledgeable bunch
No it's not Uzi that's a typing error its actually Suzi!! But i got fed up of being thought of as a weapon of mass or minor distruction so have changed to the above!
I have now tracked down where it is.
It is at a small village near Brest called Ploudalmezeau. There is an e mail for details which is:
oct.ploudalmezeau@wanadoo.fr
It is in May each year.
We have decided to combine it with our biannual holiday in 2004 after which we will go to Provence. There I will run up Mont Ventoux (1912 metres over 10k). I failed to beat the mountain in 2002.
There used to be a local Ultra in Notts that followed a canal bank (Cotgrave 40m) and the advice was fast walking where necessary so as not to burn yourself out.
I am tempted by the Grand Union 145, Birmongham to London. 2005 perhaps.