Trail & Ultra running Journal
Training, nutrition, inspiration, tips and more…
5 pro tips to start trail running from your door step
Do you want to know the simplest way to become a trail runner? Here are 5 pro tips to start your trail running journey.
Ultimate Guide for Plant Based Endurance Athletes
A plant based diet is to be responsible in what you eat–this means choosing your food carefully, and not just opting for junk food. It’s very important to do your research and find out which are the key food products that you need to eat regularly if you want to do this correctly and in a healthy way.
Be a mountain runner in a flat city – 4 examples of how to
Do you want the formula to become a strong mountain, trail and Ultra runner while living in a flat city? Discover how with this 4 examples.
Trail running for beginners
A quick intro: if you’re already an experienced mountain runner, this probably isn’t the article for you–but please do pass it along to anyone you might know who’s recently started
What’s a great pre training breakfast?
Of a course there’s not one fit’s all answer for this, but I’m sure that you can get some good ideas here for a great pre trail running training breakfast.
How much to drink and how in long runs
Drinking is as important as fueling and mostly in long runs. Doesn’t matter if it’s cold or hot, drinking is very important, and even more if you’re running at altitude.
What to eat on a intensity trail running training
Intensity workouts are tricky, you want to run fast, hard and feel strong but at the same time we’re more sensitive to everything, and mostly to eating. Our body is
How to eat during a trail running race, without slowing down
If you don’t eat you can’t run, that’s like a personal rule actually, I make sure to follow it. Eating during a race is something that we don’t necessarily think
How to trail run – Complete guide & training guide to become a trail runner
Do you wonder what Trail running is? Do you want the foruma to become a trail runner? Here we guide you to choose, train and complete a trail race.
Road Running to Trail Running
For those of you experienced road runners out there, switching over to the trails might not sound like a big deal–but if you start to trail run with a road
The Black voices we’re learning from in the running community
Like many around the world, the three of us behind Vert.run have been outraged by–and then looked very much inward after–the recent killings of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and George
How to recover faster to run stronger and longer
Let’s rethink the power of doing nothing By Philip Collier. Learn more about Philip’s work here: https://www.brainsparks.com/ If you are like me then you’re tracking your training metrics; distance, vert,
Vert Beats: Vert.run x Francesco Puppi
Vert.run x Francesco Puppi At Vert.run, we keep adding more new training plans with Pro athletes and we’re happy to announce our new collab with Italian mountain runner Francesco Puppi.
Reasons to keep training in winter
As the weather gets colder and rain/snow come along, we all fight the same feeling. We tell ourselves that we want to go out for a run, but at the
How to maintain your fitness during the winter months
It feels “easy” to be a trail runner when the sun is shining, the air is balmy and the days are long—but in the dead of winter, finding motivation can
Vert Beats: GTS Championship
Azores Trail Run – GTS Championship The year is almost over–and with the situation getting complicated again with the pandemic, this week’s race that happened on the island of Azores
Vert Beats: Run Wild
Run Wild What does running on the trails mean to you? We’re sure everybody could say something different and personal about it, but one of the things that we all
Vert Beats: Reasons to keep training in the winter
4 reasons to keep training in the winter Now that the northern hemisphere is heading into winter, we know many of you tend to think that trail running season is
Vert Beats: Rickey Gates Transamericana
Rickey Gates – Transamericana In 2017 and after the last election in the US, Rickey Gates decided to embark on his biggest project ever (at the time): crossing his country
Vert Beats: Sierre Zinal Elite Race.
Sierre Zinal – Elite Race. Last Friday, pretty much out of nowhere, we found out about a very special edition of the mythical race Sierre Zinal happening with just a
How to pace yourself on a long climb
This is a key element on mountain running, pacing yourself. You know that the easiest is to start hard and feel like a superhero in the first ⅓ of the
Running in the rain is cool and great for our health.
Some people tend to just not train or choose the treadmill when it is raining, but actually they’re missing out. Running under the rain in the right places it’s safe
How to drink on a trail running race without slowing down
We already talked about drinking on a long run, well the only difference in doing it during a race is that we don’t want to slow down during the race,
Vert Beats: Jim Walmsley Hardrock FKT attempt.
Jim Walmsley – Hardrock 100 FKT attempt. Back in July–without much noise or press at all–we saw another big name jumping into the FKT attempts party: it was Jim Walmsley,
