by Karl Zeiner | Jun 26, 2015 | Race Reports, Running, Ultra Marathon
My main race for 2015 is the Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc at the end of August. In the past this race has been hit with weather issues causing the race to be shortened or changed. My hope is that we will be lucky this year and get to do the full course in good...
by Karl Zeiner | Nov 21, 2013 | Running, Speed training, Training, Uncategorized
I wrote a blog post on this last year and thought I would use this as a reminder to highlight how useful the Cross Country (XC) racing season can be to work on running speed over the winter. Over the last two winters I took part in the Borders XC Series held by a...
by Karl Zeiner | Nov 14, 2013 | Running, Training
I was going to write this post a couple of weeks ago before going into the Jedburgh 3 Peaks Ultra race, but time got in the way. Below are five short reports of the long training runs that I did in the period from end September to mid October, which I alluded to in my...
by Karl Zeiner | Sep 6, 2013 | Race Reports, Running, Ultra Marathon
My main aim for this race was to finish. I had never raced a multi-day event so really wasn’t sure what to expect or how to approach it. The Ring O Fire is a 135 mile ultra marathon following the coastal path around the island of Anglesey off the Welsh coast. The...
by Karl Zeiner | Aug 15, 2013 | Coaching, Running, Training
Yesterday I did a series of downhill repetitions with one of my athletes in the Pentlands. To me this is an element of trail and hill running that is too often ignored. The approach is more likely that when in races (especially longer ones) to take the descents easy...
by Karl Zeiner | Jul 1, 2013 | Race Reports, Running, Ultra Marathon
June 22, 23:00 hrs: Gareth, my support runner, and I have exited the Braveheart car park and are on the pavement heading into Fort William. Darkness has fallen and I am expecting to see urbanisation and street lights any minute. The legs are tired and aching and I am...
