Mountain Athlete
A lot of people ask me about my diet or to give some advice on nutrition for endurance sports. First: I m not a dietician! There are people with a much bigger understanding of the nutrition processes than me! But I will try to write about what principles I believe are important, specially in an era [ ]
In previous years, I shared my carbon footprint publicly. It felt important, but also incomplete. The truth is, my impact isn t just about flights and travel. It s about daily choices, the platform sport gives me, how I use my partnerships, and what I m actually doing, and not just talking about. So this year, I put [ ]
First of all I want to express that those are just some opinions and thoughts I had when thinking on what s going on with trailrunning at that time. I therefore have biases, first as an elite athlete I would have tendency to focus more on events that elite found more relevant versus what the big [ ]
When I embarked in the project of connecting the 4000m summits in the Alps, I knew that the most challenging thing it wouldn t be the physical load neither the technical difficulties, but the cognitive load. How to manage the amount of stress for many hours and many days in a terrain that required full concentration [ ]
We need to eat to survive and to produce mechanical energy ( to move). Our bodies require “fuel” to produce energy and different substrates and raw materials to maintain homeostasis, repair tissues, support growth and various physical functions. In the context of endurance sports training we often hear things like calories in equals calories out [ ]
In both cases, the pressure was big — but for very different reasons. On Everest, the consequence was physical; at racing, it was on the ego. Yet my body and mind reacted in similar ways: tunnel vision, elevated pulse, faster breathing, the feeling of standing on a cliff edge. Time is distorted, it feels fast/short [ ]
Before starting training for a race or project we should determine what are the demands of that event to identify the key factors we need to improve in order to perform and to build a training plan for it. Before entering into analyzing an event is important to understand that to perform a task (doing [ ]
I will try to write a bit about what has been my last month running, climbing and riding a bike in the American West felt like. I say “try,” because time stretched and compressed—at once two years and a single day. It was intense and overflowing with experiences and landscapes, enough to scramble any sense [ ]
When I ran my first long trail races, support was simple. You carried what you needed, and every now and then, there was an aid station where volunteers handed out water, bananas, maybe some chocolate. If you were lucky, a friend or family member might meet you at a road crossing with a piece of [ ]
I will try to explain how I trained and raced Western States Endurance Run where I finished 3rd with a time of 14h19 minutes. Even if we like to get insights from the specific training, reality is that to build fitness is about long term. Here a shoot of my training volume over the past [ ]