Buzz Burrell

Forget the fancy theories about diet and nutrition - read this real-life take on what to eat and drink for racing and training, featuring ulta-distance and mountain running stars Matt Carpenter, Lisa Goldsmith and Charles Corfield. It's up on the La Sportiva sponsored website here.

"They tell you what they eat every day, what they take in while racing, and why", says author Buzz Burrell.

I loved the advice Buzz Burrell has just handed out to a newbie runner on the Boulder TrailRunners list.

Buzz is a legend in trail running and ultra circles -- although I've heard him dispute the description on the grounds that it makes him feel like he died and nobody told him. He specialises in tackling long, hard, wet, cold, extreme runs that "normal" people would only attempt as part of a ten-person team with sherpas. He runs wearing normal trail running gear plus an extra bottle if conditions are really bad.

"Keep it simple"? He invented the phrase. We don't know what "harrach9" was expecting when he wrote...