Running Logic 101

More extracts from Running Logic© a book not yet written on, well, the Logic of Running. Running Logic 101 You can’t do what you can’t do. You can’t do better than your best. If you’re dehydrated, you’re dehydrated If your sugar levels (your energy supplies) are low,...

Ten Training Axioms

Training Axioms 1. Without running, without putting enough miles in the legs, you won’t get strong enough to do Comrades. 2. There are ways running that make you stronger, there are ways of running that make you weaker, then there are way of running that add minimum...

Running Logic-Assumptions

Excerpts from The Logic of Running©,  a work about,well, the logic of running. Summary Training for Comrades is simple really. You need to run. Training takes place outdoors, well out of bedroom-, office-, pub- and other-distraction-doors, preferably on tar,...

Ultras and rationality

Running has a logic that is simple rational and gets you where you want to go. It is possible to apply a rational logic to what can appear to be an irrational activity. The logic of running doesn’t require irrationality because the activity of ultra-running can...

The Mystery of Training

Ultra-training is mysterious. Books, magazines, websites, gurus at the running club who have been to the Oracles Beyond 42.2 km, Beyond 50 miles, 100 miles or To Infinity might have programs or training ideas. None are wrong. All are mysterious. Training programs...