Self-assessment and knowing your body

The best athletes are students of themselves. Tracking how your body responds to training load, sleep, altitude and heat lets you push hard when it counts and back off before injury or burnout. Build the habit of honest self-assessment and your long-term progression will take care of itself.

This is one of a growing series of practical guides from the GlobeRacers team. Endurance performance is built on the fundamentals done consistently — training, fuelling, hydration and recovery — long before race day arrives.

Test every strategy in training, on the terrain and at the effort you expect on race day. Small, repeatable habits are what carry you through the back half of an ultra.

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