What I Wish I Knew
First-ultra hindsight: leave room to adapt
Rehearse an easy opening effort on comparable terrain.
TRAIN · FUEL · RECOVER · ENDURE
Miles of Meaning
Ultra endurance,
understood.
Evidence-based training, fueling, recovery, race strategy, and the mental side of going long.
START WITH YOUR QUESTION
What brings you here?
01 / RESEARCH PULSE
Read beyond
the headline.
LATEST PUBLISHED EDITION2 publications · 2 findings selected
EARLY & CONTEXTUAL EVIDENCE
Sleep and readiness: what can the signals tell us?
Two reviews put sleep and readiness signals in context. Neither supplies a universal score or sleep target. Existing ultra guidance stays unchanged.
Read the complete research briefWhat changes?
No protocol change. Interesting findings are not automatically a reason to change your training.
- 01
Systematic review, assessed from the primary structured abstract
Conceptual Frameworks and Assessment of Readiness to Train in Endurance Exercise: A Systematic Review.
Supports the existing distinction between a signal, how recovered you feel and a training decision. It does not establish that monitoring is useless or validate an automatic score-based decision. Existing guidance and numeric planning examples are unchanged.
Primary source (opens in a new tab) - 02
Systematic review, assessed from the primary structured abstract
Sleep Strategies and Performance Outcomes in Ultramarathon Runners: A Systematic Review.
Supports retaining existing sleep-opportunity and overnight-rest planning. It supplies no nap dose, sleep-loss practice or causal performance promise; duration, overnight exposure, rest access and stage format still matter.
Primary source (opens in a new tab)
Source verification and evidence confidence are different. Some archive sources remain unresolved. Check the source audit
02 / THE PRACTICAL PROTOCOL
The week,
made practical.
Use the Action Plan for your training week and the days before, during and after your event. Keep scope, safety and sources beside each action.
ULTRA BASICS · 50K · 100K · 100 MILE · MULTI-DAY
Start with readiness
Check whether today’s session still makes sense.
Know the purpose
Connect the session to the priorities in your plan.
Keep the boundaries visible
Use the cautions and stop rules alongside the advice.
03 / FROM THE FIELD
THE ORIGIN COLLECTION
ORIGIN STORY · EDITORIAL
A 100K question.
A longer view.
Miles of Meaning began with a practical question: how can research become useful in an actual training week? The original protocols, tools and research history remain the foundation.
Read the origin storyExperience has a place here. It stays clearly separate from scientific evidence.
A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE
Same paths.
A wider view.
Training, physiology, fueling, recovery, psychology and race execution belong in the same conversation. Understanding their connections helps us ask better questions about going long.
Our perspective04 / KEEP EXPLORING
Worth your attention.
FROM THE TRAILS
Lessons from people who go long.
Long Run Listening
Life at the cutoff: planning with less margin
Confirm whether each cutoff means arrival or departure.
Aid Station Wisdom
A clear job for every aid-station stop
Choose the essential tasks before reaching the station.
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