I distinctly remember the finisher shirt I got at my very first marathon in Victoria, British Columbia. I remember it because it was a bit of a dilemma – I’d just run a marathon, a whole 26.2 miles, so I sure as anything...
Articles by Ellie Greenwood
What do you mean, “Where’s Ellie?” Surely a good guess would be that I’m on a North Vancouver trail somewhere, or maybe run-commuting to downtown Vancouver or hitting up the treadmill. But with the World Anti-Doping Asso...
Ultrarunning is, by definition, running or racing for a distance further than 26.2 miles. There are a myriad of reasons why many of us gravitate towards a sport that celebrates endurance and being out on the trail for th...
It’s an odd thing, but there have been occasions when I have spent many months training with single-minded focus for a goal race, and yet in the middle of the actual race, I have struggled to remember all the hard work t...
The 100-mile distance holds a huge allure for many an ultrarunner. Whilst I’m not saying that 50k or 50 miles are easy distances, without a doubt, covering 100 miles is rightly still seen as the ultimate challenge for ma...
If you ask ultrarunners why they got into the sport in the first place, you will hear a range of answers—for health, for a love for the outdoors, for a personal challenge, for an escape from the stresses of work. But I c...
Injury is a dreaded condition that every runner fears, but there is a certain inevitability about it: the more we run, the more likely we are to suffer some sort of running-related injury. Depending on its severity, we m...
If you train with a group of friends or a running club, you likely know runners whose physical fitness you can compare to yours on a regular basis. I know where I sit in the pack with my running club teammates—who is fas...
During the months of hard training for your big race, sometimes all you want to do is NOT run. There are the days when it is so very tempting to hit snooze on your alarm clock and go back to sleep rather than crawl out o...
Time… wouldn’t we all love to have more of it? This can be particularly true when we have a full time job, family and social commitments and we decide to sign up for an ultra. We can start questioning whether signing up...
With summer race season just a few months away, I am sure that many of you are steadily training for that big race, especially if you were lucky enough to make it through an anticipated lottery. And maybe once your name...
Ten years ago, if you’d asked a middle-of-the-pack ultrarunner if they had a coach, you’d have likely been met with a blank stare or maybe a laugh. A coach? Aren’t coaches for high school cross country athletes or intern...
If you are active on social media, you can be forgiven for thinking that the phrase ‘the loneliness of the long-distance runner’ does not apply to ultrarunners. It seems that every day my Facebook, Twitter and Instagram...