Refining Ultra Running: A Western States Training Story

06/01/2018

First part of an epic training run. WSER is quite runnable, so get your gait mechanics dialed!

Three days of running the Western States course with aid stations, drop offs and new friends, what a fantastic way to spend a long weekend Admittedly I started to get nervous before heading out to …

05/30/2018

Memorial Day on the Western states course was amazing! Making new friends and checking out the course was so much fun! Only 24 more days left! It’s coming to the end of the Balanced Movement training, we are past the strength section and onto the coordinating the core and refining gait part of the program!

05/30/2018

Rachel heading to Western States Memorial Day training last week. More pictures and experiences to follow!

03/29/2018

Working on the next block of power and speed workout for Western States 100 training.

03/20/2018

After a hard fall over two weeks ago, Rachel is finally putting away her bike trainer and getting back to some running! As you can see her training partner is super excited about this.

02/27/2018

It's time to change up the Balanced Movement Studio workout. Much like a run-training plan changes to challenge different systems, one's strength plan should change as well. From base strength at first, to movements with strength, now moving towards so some more explosive movements.

Read more about it here from the creater of the strength workout,Brian Beatty.

http://balanced-movement.com/category/bb-blog/

02/20/2018

First trip to Western NC for some elevation. As per the advice of other East coast ultrarunners, we ran our 20 miles with fast downhills to "season" the quads for all the downhills of Western States 100.

02/12/2018

Spooky 20 mile trail run in the pouring rain and mud. Sometimes our everyday trails are so beautiful.