The Trail Runner's Secret
The major difference between road running and trail running is the terrain: rocks, roots, ruts, and uneven ground from start to finish. Running trails takes concentration which isn’t necessarily required when running along a road on which you can zone out and Zen up. Another victim of the Scottish fell terrain And if you’ve ever tried fell running in the British Isles it’s even more difficult, because when your foot disappears beneath that heather, it’s anyone’s guess as to what it will land on. If you are lucky, it’s hard flat ground, but more often than not it is a rut, or soft marsh, or a water bog, or a hole which sucks you down to your hip (yes). Given those obvious difference between trail/fell and road running, there must be corresponding differences in training, right? Absolutely! Aside from putting in those miles on the trails, doing some additional leg work for the adductors needed for jumping zig-zag from rock to rock, and of course the exercises for eccentric muscle con...