The Wilder Journal » Training

Mud spatters up your back. Sweat crusting under the brim of your sunhat. Perspiration dribbling down your spine as that grin… oh that grin… spreads from ear to ear. Out here, roaming this trail, you are performing unapologetically at your wildest and it feels damn amazing!

So, when Salomon announced the new S-Lab Sense Ultra 3 update I was a little wary. How would they perform over rough ground? However, yipppppeeeee! This new S-Lab Sense Ultra 3 has undergone a great update! With slightly more foam underfoot, a more responsive midsole and a completely redesigned upper, it has been exciting to experience this shoe perform on the rugged Tasmanian trails.

We reached out to all our ambassador athletes to see how they were going with training and how they'd adapted to training for changed or undetermined race dates. In Tasmania, most of the trails are closed to the public for the time being, as well as Gyms.  This is how Australian ultra trail running team athlete Jess Collins has adapted to continue performing wilder.

Recovery is just as important as the efforts themselves.  Not just the recovery from the training itself but from life. One of the lines in a book I read recently that really resonated with me, was that now the world operates at a different speed, the “speed of want”. We want it all and we want it yesterday. We are an impatient society.  This...