
The Wild Seads Blog
Black Spur Ultra MisAdventures 2023 by Sarah Seads
Sinister Sports Black Spur Ultra Marathon Race Experience & What Didn’t Work Out (This time:)!
2 Trail Running Agility Drills For Improving Your Stability, Performance, Technical Trail Technique & Sense of Play!
Agility exercises are excellent tools to increase turn over, boost co-ordination, improve agility in the trails. These 2 basic agility techniques are created to boost the stability and responsiveness in your ankles, knees, hips and pelvic regions of your body! Agility drills improve neuromuscular co-ordination, strength and agility by strengthening the tissues and nerves and how they communicate with each other in your body.
RECOVERY IS TRAINING
Do you think of your Rest and Recovery as Training? Learn the signs that you will benefit from more recovery in your training regime in this post written by Endurance Coach, exercise science Kinesiologist and ulra-endurance runner Sarah Seads.
My Cacao + Race Experiment
Cacao is the best food and plant medicine on the planet! (IMO!:). It has changed my physical and spiritual health and well-beingness in show stopping ways and it certainly also makes me happier:)
Motivation for Sport & Life!
Get motivated, discover inspiration so you can find yourself out the door and on the start line, having fun while you enjoy the games of life! Coach Sarah Seads Motivation Video!
Key Training Principle: Periodization
You’ve got stoke! You’ve got 10 races on your radar! You’ve got new sneakers! Woot! Now… Now What’s Your Plan?
How to Become an Efficient (and Fast!) Runner
Whether it is your first 10k, faster 21k or an ultra adventure, the key to your success in endurance training and racing is not simply adding more miles…it’s in the details! Learn How to Become an Efficient (and FAST!) Runner in this post by Endurance Running Coach SARAH SEADS!
Coaching: Downhill Running Techniques
My favourite part of trail runs are the long, continuous, steep descents and I can’t get enough of them! I run uphill so that I get to play on the way down. With practice I am sure you will learn to love the downs too!
Zone Intensity Training
Now that you have ready Part 1 and have an understanding of how the body creates energy it is time to look at how you can tailor your training sessions to make these energy systems stronger...
Amazing Energy Systems!
The human body is an amazing machine! We have multiple energy systems within our bodies that provide fuel for our activities so that we can run, spin, jump and play at a range of speeds and durations.
Top 3 Reasons Endurance Racers Fail to Cross the Finish Line and How to Avoid Them!
The more mistakes we make in a race, the more we learn...but that is a hard way to learn! I hope you can learn the easy way by reading this Top 3 Reasons Endurance Racers Fail To Cross the Finish Line Post (and Golden Nugget IMO!)!
Key Training Principles: “Overtraining”
How to Avoid Overtraining in Athletics so you can keep going and avoid injury, staleness and illness! By Kinesiologist and Endurance Coach SARAH SEADS!