Treking for four

Yesterday was my planned long run, 22km on the Guelph Radial trail and the connecting roads. I was really looking forward to my run and I headed out from the house around 9:30 am. I was feeling bgood, reminding myself to keep the run easy and my heart rate in zone 3. It had been a while since I had run the third line to hwy 25 section of the radial trail and I was enjoying the changes that fall s brought. This is a pretty hilly section and I like to use these hills to work on my power hiking which helps keep the run nice and easy. My run went off the rails about 400 metres from where the trail turns and heads out through a field to the highway. Out of nowhere my hear began racing and jumped from zone 2 to zone 6. I immediately stopped running and started walking hoping to slow my pounding racing heart. I have experienced this before, I am never sure if the cause is a panic attack or something related to the electrical signal in my heart. The last couple of weeks have not been easy, I h...

My 110 Km FKT attempt is not my first ultramarathon, but it is my farthest, I have found in the past since a running coach is way out of my budget that there are some good free plans on the web. My personal go to site is irunfar.com, I find the training plans feel do able and the site also has lots of great articles related to ultra and trail running. For this run I am using a version of irunfar.com's 100km training plan, but I have adjusted it to reflect all of the other commitments I have and in some cases reduced the mileage required. I find when I struggle to follow a training plan O can get really negative and I am hoping that by building the plan around my life instead bid trying to fit my life into the plan I will have more success. One of the challenges I know I will have because of the timing of the run is the winter running and the likelihood I will be spending time running on the treadmill. I know that both running in the cold and snow and running on the treadmill will b...