Ultra Marathon

Erinthebodo

Has anyone here done an Ultra Marathon? I have done a couple full marathons and am currently training for another 2.... I am interested in doing an Ultra but wanted to know what people did for training. Would love to hear how you did it

jturnerx

There's a few of us lurking around here but I'd head over to Runner's World and check out their trail running and ultra marathon forums as a starting point if you want a community of people to discuss this stuff with.

I've done a 50 mile, a 12 hour and several 50ks. I've got a 50 miler, 2 or 3 50ks and a marathon or two on deck to take me through 2012. If you are doing a 50k you can probably take a marathon training plan and just extend the long runs a little bit and be fine. Just try and train on terrain that's similar to what you will see at your race.

If you are heading into 50 mile/100k/100 mile territory it gets very, very interesting. Things are a lot less cookie cutter in terms of what works for people. It's a constant experiment and part of what is appealing to me is the whole learning process.