4 Easy Steps to Train Your Stomach to Eat on the Run
The key to successful--even blissful--long runs starts with your stomach. Just like your muscles and mind, your stomach needs training, too. Most running troubles arise not from physical issues, b...
21 Whole Foods You Need To Try On Your Next Run
Whether you’re transitioning to real foods, just starting to eat on your runs, or are looking for new foods to mix up your current run nutrition, these 21 foods provide lots of energy and nutrients...
Eat More, Run Stronger: Why & How You Should Be Eating for Recovery
To your body, exercise is a stressor and your metabolism, nervous system, cardiovascular system, and beyond all respond. Depending on the intensity, your nervous system switches to “fight-or-fligh...
How to Pack Your Running Vest for Max Efficiency on a Long Run
In this video, MUIR Energy's Georgia Danielson shows you how to pack your running vest for max efficiency for a 4 hour long run.
How To Eat For Heat: Fueling For a Hot Ultra Marathon with Jeff Browning
We caught up with MUIR Athlete & ultra-running legend Jeff Browning before he toes the starting line at the iconic Western States 100 miler this month.
Fueling Your Long Runs: Why It’s So Important and How to Develop Your Strategy
Have you ever taken a run in the woods or maybe the mountains, only for your stomach to completely and utterly revolt? Where your day goes from lolling around in the forest to ticking off every 1/1...
3 Easy Steps To Get You Back In Training Mode
It’s been a long couple of months for everyone, and to think anyone has cruised through this uprising of the COVID era is blasphemy. But we at MUIR have decided, enough is enough (of couch time) an...
Looking for an edge when it comes to running ultras? Start eating on your training runs. You would never start an ultra without first training with your gear or working on your fitness for months. ...
I Got a Handful of Problems and Nutrition Ain't One
Gearing up for a run, race, or adventure is never quite as easy as it should be. What’s the weather going to do? Where’s my hat? Do I need my sunnies? Should I tie a single or double knot? Do I nee...
Free Running Calorie Intake Calculator: How Many Calories Should Runners Eat While Running?
Enter your weight and average running pace to get an estimate of how many calories you should be eating per hour when you run. NOTE: Make sure to slowly build up over a series of runs to these cal...
4 Nutrition Hacks For The Traveling Athlete
By Jeff Stern Traveling makes it challenging to stay on top of a healthy diet, plain and simple. If we’re being completely honest though, travel also isn't an excuse to throw out all the good hab...
Energy Gels: The Complete Guide For Training And Racing
What Are Energy Gels? Energy gels are generally a carbohydrate-rich portable food with a honey or paste-like consistency that gives endurance athletes an easy way to fuel during racing and trainin...
The 5 Key Ultrarunning Workouts That’ll Improve Your Performance
The five essential ultrarunning workouts described here will help you accumulate time at intensity and target specific areas of your fitness allowing you to be much more effective with your trainin...