Author Archive: SageCanaday

2-time Olympic Trials Qualifier, Mountain runner, Author of "Running For The Hansons," trail runner, videos for Vo2max Productioins, LLC.

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Moving Down To The Marathon

Moving Down To The Marathon

Moving Down To The Marathon   Photo Credit: CrusePhoto. com,  Also on Twitter at @CrusePhoto.   I ran my very first marathon at the 2007 Houston Marathon in 2:22:21 missed the Olympic Trials standard by 21 seconds. It was brutal. Almost exactly 7 years later (yesterday, January 19th) I ran the 2014 Carlsbad Marathon in […]

January 21, 2014 | By | 43 Replies More
New Innovative Products at Ultimate Direction

New Innovative Products at Ultimate Direction

Yes I’m sponsored by Ultimate Direction (and yes, this is a blatant product plug). – However, this is to celebrate the launch of new innovative products coming out of a local Boulder, CO Company that is committed to supporting mountain-ultra-trail (and even road!) runners at every level.  They have helped support me and my dreams […]

January 14, 2014 | By | Reply More
Marathon Speed Training for Ultramarathoners

Marathon Speed Training for Ultramarathoners

I’ve been doing some informatvie (at least I hope they are informative), “Training Talk” videos on my YouTube channel, Vo2maxProductions. Here is the latest Training Talk (it’s quite long), where I rant about how marathon speed training can help ultra marathon performance – AND how to move up to an ultra if you’ve already been […]

January 7, 2014 | By | 9 Replies More
Rise of the MUT Runner.

Rise of the MUT Runner.

Click HERE for my new blog post I wrote for the Ultimate Direction blog. It’s about my take on how Mountain-Ultra-Training is evolving. This is also the subject matter of my film project, “MUT Runner.” As always, thanks so much for the support! Happy Holidays, Sage

December 18, 2013 | By | 9 Replies More
Pre-Race thoughts for The North Face 50-mile Endurance Challenge

Pre-Race thoughts for The North Face 50-mile Endurance Challenge

I wrote it in my book “Running For The Hansons,” and I’ll say it again: Distance running is a fickle sport. In my 15 years of competitive racing and training year-round I’ve had some pretty bad races; epic blow-ups and even entire seasons of horrible running.  I’ve overtrained, over-raced, undertrained and underperformed. I’ve had the […]

December 4, 2013 | By | 11 Replies More