The Ultimate Ultra Running Handbook: For runners looking for their next challenge [Paperback]

'An accessible, inspiring and comprehensive guide to this amazing sport of ours'
Damian Hall, ultra runner and journalist

Have you taken part in marathon distance events and find yourself wondering what's next? Are you looking for a new, exciting physical and mental challenge? This is the ultimate guide for runners who are looking to go even further.

Welcome to the ultra running community. This friendly guide written by seasoned ultra runner Claire Maxted is packed with training and nutrition advice, inspiration, strength and injury-prevention exercises and case studies from fellow runners of all levels. Including tips from pros and coaches across the sport, you will find everything you need to become a happy, confident ultra runner.

From the basics and your first race, all the way through to multi-day events, chapters include:

 Ultra Running kit essentials
 Finding the time to train  tips and inspiration
 How to get faster and/or run further
 Training plans from 50k to 160k
 Nutrition and recipes for ultra energy
 Where to run  both locally and globally
 Advice on strength training, overtraining, injury prevention, recovery and more!

A practical, accessible training guide for any runner looking to take up the challenge of ultra-running.Claire Maxtedis co-founder and former editor ofTrail Runningmagazine. She now runs the YouTube challel Wild Ginger Running. Claire's first book, The Ultimate Trail Running Handbook is also published by Bloomsbury. Find out more at www.wildgingerrunning.co.uk

An accessible, inspiring and comprehensive guide to this amazing sport of ours Damian Hall, ultra runner and journalist

This world needed this book and we needed Claire to write it!! Nobody knows ultra running like she does Vassos Alexander, author of Don't Stop Me Now

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