Madbee: Lakeland 50 is great, but rather different from a road marathon. Go on the recce days if you can - that helps a lot with navigation on the day. 60 miles a week is fine for training for ultras, but remember that you are going to be WALKING a lot of this race. Practice time-on-feet: I don't know what your marathon…
Daisy, I know how you feel. I'm doing LDWA Winter Tanners in January and I'm glad I've already done one run following directions (Dunstable Downs Challenge 20), because now I know how much time I'm likely to lose stopping to work out the way. I found myself running alone for most of the way on most of the ultras I've run…
Hi Tom, Thanks for the link to the new site - I've bookmarked it and I'll go browse. Any info. about pain/lump under the extensor hallucis longus, I think where it crosses the tarso-metatarsal joint, but possibly a bit more proximal (intertarsal area) (my knowledge of human anatomy is deficient - I can't pinpoint where the…