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Race Day Systems: Winning the Ultra
Paperback
Series: The Ultra Racing System, Book 3
Sports GeneralGeneral FitnessRunning & Jogging
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 7 2026
Pages: 206
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Ninety miles in, your legs are wrecked, your stomach has staged a revolt, and the trail markers just vanished into the dark-this is exactly the moment Race Day Systems was built for.
Ultramarathons aren't won in a final sprint. They're won or lost in the hundreds of small decisions between the start line and the finish: when to eat, how hard to push the first climb, what to do the second a hot spot turns into a blister at mile 40. Coach and ultrarunner Dane Halvorsen turns those decisions into repeatable systems, so you're never improvising when the stakes are highest.
Inside, you'll build:
- A taper and final-week plan that arrives at the start line rested, not undertrained
- Night-before and race-morning rituals that quiet pre-race nerves in minutes
- Gear and clothing systems with built-in redundancy that costs zero extra weight
- Pacing frameworks based on feel, breath, and terrain-not just a stubborn watch
- A fueling and hydration rhythm you can hit on autopilot, mile after mile
- Aid-station and crew scripts that turn chaos into a 90-second pit stop
- Navigation habits for reading trail and terrain when your map and your head both go fuzzy
- A field-tested troubleshooting protocol for blisters, cramps, GI distress, and gear failures
- Night-running and sleep-deprivation tactics that keep you safe when the miles blur together
- Climbing, descending, and technical-terrain mechanics that save your quads for the finish
- A final-miles mental system for grinding out the last brutal stretch
- A recovery and race-review template that turns every finish into fuel for the next one
This isn't another training plan. It's the missing manual for everything that happens between go and the finish line-the practical, unglamorous systems that separate runners who fall apart at mile 60 from the ones who finish strong.
If you've ever bonked, blistered, or fallen apart on a course you trained hard for, the problem probably wasn't your fitness. It was the absence of a system.
Stop leaving race day to luck. Build the system. Then go run your best ultra.
Scroll up and grab your copy of Race Day Systems today.
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