I fell into ultrarunning – literally. In the ’90s I fell down some steps at work and tore the ACL in my knee. My orthopedist said I was “too old” (40s!) to harvest my own hamstring to repair it with and would use an allo...
Articles by Sunny Blende
Just as your training sometimes gets sluggish, sometimes your fueling does too. Luckily, lots of new options are available in the sports nutrition market—as well as new and updated nutrition theories. Gels, chews, bar...
If you can run 100 miles by eating a gel every 30 minutes from the start, then for heaven’s sake, go do something more fun than reading this article! I’ve been a runner since I was 22—when pacing my friend at Western Sta...
We have become a society of carb burners. That is where sports nutrition has been for the past couple of decades. Of the two main food sources the body uses for energy, carbohydrates and fats, our working muscles would p...
The problem – ultrarunning is a lot of work! Energy outlay must be compensated for with energy intake (calories) for ongoing training to be possible and successful. This is the reason the diet of most endurance athle...
When fiber is mentioned in conversation, there is usually a pause - then everyone has an opinion. We know that fiber is healthy; after all, fiber decreases transit time through the gut. And we know it can cause ultrarunn...
You spend considerable time carefully planning “a long weekend run” when you are training for your next ultra but you may not put the same amount of effort into planning your nutrition during that same run. S...