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Over the last few years, FKT, or Fast Known Times have risen in popularity. Or rather, let me rephrase that, it’s simply that the Interwebz has given this genre of running more of an audience. FKTs, if we’re honest have always Read More …
How do you balance your ego in training to be effective? In this article we explore the warning signs to look out for if you find your ego growing!
The other morning I was chatting with a fellow runner about certain sporting companies and how they treated their athletes. One thing thing led to another and we ended up talking about the highly polarising topic of doping in sport. Read More …
Today we welcome to the pages of Ultra168, Ali Pottinger, one half of the excellent Squadrun team with Kerry Suter. Ali contacted me yesterday to say that following an article I wrote about equality and equity last year, it had Read More …
Have you ever had the perfect race? What exactly is the perfect race? Is it where you hit a running goal or more specifically a time? Or is there something else that defines what the perfect race is for you? Read More …
I’ve just finished reading this cracking article about the case for neutrality and while I poured through its contents, it immediately drew my mind to the parallels of running ultras. The article ponders the notion that in life, we’re either optimistic Read More …
We’ve been here before. I remember a few years ago posting some safety tips for runners and then having a conversation with someone about how we should approach the issue of runner safety and it completely changed my view of Read More …
I attended a lecture last week, “Less achievement and more learning”, which inspired the guts of this article. I won’t bore you with all of the details, but a good chunk of it was dedicated to reward-based systems (praise, money etc…) and Read More …
The Logic of the Long Distance is a blog by the rather fascinating Jeff Edmonds. In his blog, Jeff connects two topics I quite like, running and philosophy. Jeff feels that the professional practice of philosophy is somewhat obsessed with categorizing Read More …
Today we welcome a generous guest post from Kiwi, Darryn Gordon about the trials and tribulations of Strava and their system of self-validation. The article came about from a Facebook post on our page, which discussed some of the recent Read More …
