Ultra marathons in 2018

Running in the sun!
I haven’t written a blog entry in a while – I’ve become very used to talking to a GoPro and putting together vlogs. I think I like being able to show things at the same time as talk about things.
Right now I’m sat with my feet up, with my right calf on an ice pack.
For the last couple of years I’ve been struggling with injuries affecting triathlon training and limiting how much I can do. I think the problems stem from my lower back, and probably from getting older as much as anything else. This year I have made a change as a result – I’m going to try and run some ultra marathons instead of race triathlon. These will be big but different challenges. I think I can do this because a limited stride length has been causing my problems and for ultra running I need to run slowly, with a shorter stride length. It might work?

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