Nutrition & Fueling Strategies for Ultra Runners
Maintaining electrolyte balance during a 100-mile race requires orchestrating sodium, potassium, magnesium, and calcium intake across 16-30 hours while your body is in metabolic chaos. Get it wrong and you’re…
Sodium requirements for ultra runners spark more debate than any other nutrition topic. Some runners crush 1,000mg+ salt tablets hourly and finish strong. Others consume minimal sodium and still perform…
The “drink to thirst” advice works for easy training runs but fails catastrophically during ultra marathons where cognitive function declines and thirst signals become unreliable. An ultra marathon hydration calculator…
A single 100-mile race can cost $200-500 in nutrition alone if you rely exclusively on commercial products. Multiply that across training runs and multiple race seasons, and your fueling strategy…
You wouldn’t show up to a 100-miler having never run longer than a marathon. So why do runners attempt race-day fueling rates they’ve never practiced? Carbohydrate periodization gut training systematically…