Scott McMillan : Endurance Junky

Amazing really if you think about it. I would like to run that pace for well 1k…
Haile Gebrselassie broke the marathon world record in Berlin on Sunday, posting an official time of two hours, four minutes and 26 seconds.
The 34-year-old Ethiopian beat the mark of 2:04:55 set by Kenya’s Paul Tergat in Berlin in September […]

This weekend was my first double long session in several years and I forgot how hard they are and I didn’t even go that long!
Sat 1:38 Hilly, Sunday 1:51 hilly just over 40k for the two days, the other workouts for the week where 2 x 1:10 minutes runs on the trails. This is a […]

Cool video on the 2006 Spartathlon scooped from Scott Jurek’s website. The Spartathlon is one of the most difficult endurance races on the planet. Jurek is preparing to defend his title this weekend.

Another good week of training. I managed 4 “quality sessions” this week and dumped the base mile days to help with recovery. The highlight of the week came from the long run on Saturday. I was hoping to get a around a three hour run in so I thought why the hell not run to […]

This is kind of funny I emailed the Outside Gear Guy a question about shoes for a 50 miler and he answered.
Here is the response. I hear the Salomon shoes are Ok but I don’t care that much about keeping my feet dry I will only be out there for 6-7 hours.

OK week of training nothing out of the ordinary just putting more miles in the bank. I decided to bail on the 5peaks on Saturday and planned on doing a gentler long run instead. The long run turned out to be not so gentle though. I ran from the Grouse parking along the Baden Powell […]

Another good week of training under the belt. The week consisted of 2×50 minute runs, 1×1:30, 1×1:05 and 1×2:00 hour long run half of it being on the very challenging Diez Vista trail at Buntzen Lake. I have never run on the Diez Vista trail before and wanted to do a little recon before […]

Good week of training. 5 solid days 3 being strength days, a Grouse Grind on Tuesday, Hill Repeats on Wednesday and a killer HILLY long run. The other 2 workouts were easy 50:00-1:10 minute runs. The long run was another classic Vancouver ultra training route the base of Grouse->Lynn and return to Grouse Chalet via […]