I had never considered any major difference between men’s and women’s trail running shoes beyond color schemes that featured more pinks and purples – and a slightly narrower fit. Whenever I go...

I remember watching a documentary about the top marathon runners and their training. I noticed how every one of them did the majority of their training on trails. So I set about finding out whether a...

For many seasons I always seemed to get injured a couple of weeks after the start of Spring, during the exact time when I wanted to be out on the trails enjoying the warm sunshine. Often the injuries...

One of the things that I have had to come to terms with as I have gotten older is that my body can’t recover at the same rate that it once did. This has necessitated adaptation to both how I...

All of us have faced a layoff from running for some reason. It might be due to an injury or some life-altering event like the birth of a baby or some sort of family crisis. I picked up a knee injury...

The way we improve as trail runners is by building our endurance. And the way to build endurance is by running high mileage while still being able to recover between each run. If we push high mileage...