The best ultramarathon training plan isn’t necessarily the one you follow perfectly—it’s the one you’re willing to adjust when your body tells you something needs to change.
In this episode, I break down one of the most important—and counterintuitive—strategies for making more progress, recovering faster, avoiding injury, and showing up stronger on race day: being flexible with your training plan.
We cover:
- Why blindly completing every workout can actually limit your progress
- The difference between lacking motivation and genuinely needing recovery
- The five warning signs that it may be time to modify your training
- How to decide whether to move a workout, shorten a long run, rest, or begin a deload
- Why quality training produces better adaptations than forcing junk miles
- How to rearrange your week without stacking too many difficult sessions
- How “mission over ego” helped me run one of the best races of my life at the Tahoe 200
Listen now to learn how to stop treating your training plan like an unbreakable contract—and start using it as a tool to become a stronger, healthier, and more capable ultrarunner.
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