![]() ![]() Which is why Orton believes the solution lies in strength. “Often people run a little bit more and they do well, so they think more is better,” Eric Orton says. “It’s the equivalent of running marathon pace every day.” But they’re running themselves into the ground because it’s way too hard on a consistent basis,” Orton says. “People get into trouble when they start logging all of these mountain miles and running them because they can. It also means substituting mountain hiking for long easy runs. You have to get faster at one mile to get better across the board.” “To do better, you have to get faster,” he says. ![]() For Orton, that means running hills, doing sprint intervals on hills, and learning to love the mile. “I think better is better.”īetter means building strength and speed over volume. “Often people run a little bit more and they do well, so they think more is better,” Orton says. “You can be perfectly successful if your min/max-that’s the minimum training volume you need when your volume is at it’s max-is nine hours per week for six weeks,” ultra coach Jason Koop, director of coaching for Carmichael Training Systems, agrees.Īt the core of both statements is the classic quality over quantity credo. Even better: he’s not the only one speaking them. “If you can train well for a marathon, I think you can do 100 miles,” says Eric Orton, an endurance coach best known for whipping journalist Chris McDougall into ultra shape in the book Born to Run.įor busy people with ultra dreams, perhaps no sweeter words have been spoken.
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