Trailboard library
Preparation guides
Understand, prepare and progress with content designed for trail and ultra running.
18 guides available
Trail nutrition
Understand your nutrition profile
Compare the average, cautious, gut-trained and hot-weather profiles. Every interpretation links to its scientific references.
Gut training
Build a genuinely tested carbohydrate capacity
Learn to separate estimated need, actual intake and tolerance. A progressive method for testing a strategy without automatically raising the target.
Trail hydration
Drink enough without overdrinking
Separate sweat rate, sweat sodium, actual drinking and aid-station logistics through four illustrated experiments.
Choose your format
Which trail race distance fits your level
An interactive tool to find the format that matches your current situation, from discovery to a multi-day trek.
First trail race
Nail your first trail race (15–30 km)
Pacing, personal fuelling, minimal gear and common mistakes — a simple guide, no ultra-runner jargon.
Long-distance training
Prepare for a 50K trail race
Learn to read the course demands, build progression and adapt sessions to your experience without copying a universal plan.
First trail ultra
Prepare for an 80–100K trail ultra
Build the five capacities that keep your race system working: endurance, climbing, downhill, nutrition and night autonomy.
Long-distance ultra
Prepare a 100-mile / 160K+ ultra
What really changes beyond 100K: multiple nights, crew and pacers, turn-back thresholds — with an interactive night-cycle simulator.
Multi-day trek
Plan a multi-day trek or hiking itinerary
Split a long GPX into realistic stages: hut, gîte or bivouac, water points and weather margins — for hikers, not runners.
Trail strength training
Structure your trail-specific strength training
Lower body, core, ankles and eccentric downhill work — finally a way to fill the “strength” sessions in your plan.
Downhill technique
Improve your downhill technique
Line choice, footwork and pole use — the movement skill that complements strength training for downhill running.
Race week
Organize the week before a trail race
From seven days out to the start, remove decisions: taper, route, nutrition, equipment and logistics already tested.
Race planning
Build a race plan from the GPX
Turn the profile into segments, effort intentions, passage windows, autonomy and explainable contingency plans.
Ultra self-sufficiency
Stay self-sufficient between aid stations
Read self-sufficiency windows, distribute what must stay accessible and prepare simple options when the scenario changes.
Equipment & safety
Build your trail equipment system
Treat three layers, footwear, traction, carrying, flasks, poles and night safety as one field-tested system.
Trail running shoes
Choose trail running shoes
Choose a pair for terrain, downhills, real time on feet and testing before your race.
Heat & hot weather
Running or hiking in hot weather
Acclimatization, perceived-effort pacing, hydration and heat-illness warning signs.
Filming & video
Organizing the filming or livestream of a race, as a team
Crew roles, camera positioning along the course, sound recording and race-day coordination.