Content of this issue:
-Race News
FEATURES:
-Smiling Trail Assassin: Wyan Chow Pui Yan
-Professional Mountain Runners - An urban legend? -
-How to train in the heat
GEAR REVIEW:
-Food, Bags, Apparel and more tested
REGULARS:
-Ask The Coach: How to Pace Well in Racing 
-Body Mechanics: To Pole or Not to Pole
-First Steps: Why You Should Race and How to Prepare
-Geek Runners: PEDs. Ethics, Issues, and Trail Running
-Nutrition: Carbo versus healthy fats for energy fuel
Race Calendar

FEATURES
Harry Jones: The Vegan Runner Taking the Ultra Asian Scene by Storm
Running Rivers: Mina Guli Takes on the World’s Water Crisis
PEDs Part II
Running Wild in Malaysia

REGULARS
22 Trail Gear Tested
Ask The Coach: Mastering the Mountains
Women Corner: Sun Safe
Nutrition: Sweet Trail Running and Diabetes
Nutrition: Key Anti-Inflammatory Foods
Raace Calendar


- Race News
- A Beginner’s Guide to PED’s in Trail Running
- Variety-The Trailrunner's Spice
- 10 Facts on UTWT Champions Chaverot and Grinius
- Surviving versus racing an ultramarathon
- Endurance Running Gear — Science, or Science Fiction?
- Tis the season to detox?
- Race Calendar

Content:
- Race News
- 10 Facts on UTMB winner Ludovic Pommeret
FEATURES:
- Sport Psych 101 — FAQ
- From Fat to Ultra Runner
- How to Build Up to 100km
REGULARS:
- New Year New Gear - Running + Vacati Wonderful Type of Adventure
- Seize the Day: The Power of Morning Habits for Trail Runners
- Nutrition Tips for High Altitude Training
- Winter nutrition to prevent cold injuries
- Race Directory

In this new issue:
Our annual trail shoe review: 25 Models Tested
Features:
-Ultra Trail Gobi Race: 400km Self-navigation in the Desert
-Fat Burning
-Scott Jurek in Hong Kong

And also our regular columns:
-Become Mentally Tough
-Go with the Flow
-Floating
-Nutritional Ergogenic Aids for Winning Edge?
-Ultimate Ultra Diet

RACE NEWS
FEATURES:
Oxfam Trailwalker: Celebrating a Hong Kong Race for Hong Kongers
Masters of the Trail
REGULARS:
Trivia: Race Calendar Stats
Gear: Start the New Season with the Latest Gear
Cryotherapy, the Deep Freeze
Should I Run Before Breakfast?
How Many Races Is Too Many – and How Long to Rest Between?
Introduce Doubles into Your Life: The Key for the Time-Crunched Woman in Training
Mental Warm-Up and Pre-Competition Routines
Best Foods and Supplements to Boost EPO Hormone, Naturally
Optimal Nutrition to Speed up Recovery

Asia Trail Content:
- Race News
- Thailand Runners at UTMB
- UTMB points explained
- The Art and Science of the Long Run
- Heart-Rate Training for Trail Runners
- 14 Gear and Nutrition Solutions for the Summer
- When does a niggle become an injury and when should we stop training?
- Women's Running: Stronger Running and Community
- Imagery and Performance
- Ingeneious Training
- Health Benefits of Oregano Oil
- Travel Nutrition for Trail Runners

RACE NEWS
TRIVIA: Grand Slam Hong KOng
RUNNER PROFILES: - Flying With the Eagle: Meet Ying Tsang
                                                - Trail Blazer: KK Chan
RACE: - 10 Tips For Trail Running Success
GEAR REVIEW: - 16 Trail Gear & Nutrition Solutions Tested
FIRST STEPS: - Why should I go vegan?
ASK THE COACH: - What are junk miles?
                                          -  Get the Right Trail Training Strategy
GEEK RUNNER: - The Power of Self Talk 
NUTRITION: - How gut bacteria affects our overall health
                               - Can caffeine improve trail-running performance?
RACE CALENDAR

Articles on this issue:
-Training the Elites
-Sebastien Chaigneau: The Soulman of Ultra Running
-Running When Life Gets Hectic
-11 Cool Gear and Nutrition Solutions to Turbo Boost Your Runs
-Easy Homemade Running Fuel
-Does Cross-Training Compliment Running Performance?
-Fasciosis – New paradigm in overuse injury
-The Music Effect
-What to Eat and When to Speed Up Injury Recovery?

Mira Rai on the cover of Asia Trail! Read Mira's ascent in trail running. 
Are you driven by challenges? Need some new challenges to jumpstart the new year? Read some of the challenges that we have come up for you. 
Planning to transit from running 100km to 100miles? Be sure to read Majell Backhausen's tips on how to have a smooth transition.

Kilian's Journey to The Very Top
Trail Shoes: 28 Models Tested
Adrenal Fatigue
Take A Break to Run Stronger
If the Shoe Fits

Grab the latest issue and read about:
- Race news, including UTMB race report
- Profile of Sam Tam , a Hong Kong runner who completes his first 100-miler in a credit timing
- Interview with Asian Race Directors who give us their predictions of Asia Trail running future
- How to successfully finish an ultra with just 10 hour weekly training 
- What is periodisation, and how to run faster with it

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SPECIAL FEATURES:
- Flatlanders: Four Singaporean trail runners with a head for heights
- Chinese Runners Interview: With Chinese Metorites - Yan Long Fei & Dong Li
- How to Run Ultras Faster

REGULARS:
-Trivia: Best Climbers and Downhill Runners in UTMB. Conquer UTMB with Tips From Elite Runners
-Gear Review: 12 New Gears to Choose From
-Ask The Coach: How Do I Train for a Hilly Race Living Somewhere Flat Like Singapore?
- Body mechanics: Not-So-Simple Ankle Sprains
-First Steps: Core Strengthening Exercises Simple core strengthening exercises that don't take much time
-Geek Runner: Liquid Gels: Energy Gels and Their Claims - Do They Really Work?
-Nutrition: Mineral Deficiency: Mineral deficiency - a common side effect of endurance running how to prevent it
-Race Calendar

In this issue:
RACE NEWS
FEATURES:
The Skinny on Speed
Super Kid Aussie: Vlad Ixel
S.M.A.R.T. Running Goals
REGULARS:
New Gear Tested
Muscular Endurance:  How to finish strong an intense race
Nutrition in Ultras 
Remember to Swing Your Arms 
How to Stay Injury Free 
Get Coached Take Your Running to a New Level
Liquid Energy for Trail Runners

The content of this new Year issue:
-ADVENTURE: Edition ZerO: Testing the Grand Trail
-RUNNER  PROFILE: The Ruth Paradox
-TRAINING: Ultra-Logistics — the Beauty and the Bane of Preparing for an Ultra
-WINTER GEAR TESTED
-FIRST STEPS: 7 rules for Motivation
-ASK THE COACH: Mental Training
-ASK THE COACH: Mental Training
-BODY MECHANICS: Shin splints
-GEEK RUNNER: Altitude Tent
-NUTRITION: Home made Electrolytes
-RACE CALENDAR

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-GEAR TEST: 28 New Trail Shoes
-Team Profile: Champion System Adventure
-How to Plan Your Race Season
-Getting Started: From Zero to One
-How to Pace an Ultra
-The Science of Buying Footwear
-Cross Training: Gym Bike
-VO2max: How Hard can you Push
-How to Choose the Right Protein and Energy Bars

72 Pages of Pure Trail Running:
- Race news
- Going the Distance: The Gobi March
- A Tribute to Oxfam Trailwalker
- Runner's memories of Hong Kong Oxfam Trailwalker 
- Lizzy: Returning 
- 11 New Gear and Gadgets 
- Ask the Coach: Speed Training 
- Body Mechanics: To Bare or Not to Bare 
- Cross-Training: Preparation for Trail Runners 
- Geek Runner: Run “Naked” and Have Fun 
- Nutrition: Can a vegetarian diet improve performance? 
- Taroko Park - Taiwan: High Altitude Training
- Race directory 

-Latest Race News
-Special Features on UTMB
-Gear Review on latest GPS-enabled watches
-Amazing Adventure in the Mustang Kingdom
-Ultra running coaching Andy DuBois
-Body Mechanics: ITB
and much more

Content of this issue:
-Profile Runner: Brendan Davies and his Running Decisions
-Team Running:a Popular Concept in an Individual Sport
-Triathletes on Trails
-Mind Over Body
-The Race (from Lizzy Hawker)
-Nutrition: Carbohydrates
-21 Nutrition Products Tested
-Recovering After your Trail Run
-Body Mechanic: Plantar Fasciitis
-8 Alternative Ways to Achieve your Running Goals
-Cross-Training: Agility
-Trail of the Month

-Hoka Team in HK for Ultra-Trail World Tour
-Overtraining
-Himalayan Hill Queen
-Under pressure: what you need to know on compression
-and much more

ISSUE#2 – 
-Extreme Endurance Runners (with Jeri Chua, Law Chor Kin, Andre Blumberg, Jonnifer Lacanlale)
-Tea and Horse Expedition (with Stone Tsang, Kami Semick)
-Boost Your Uphill Power
-Don\'t Let a DNF Define You
-Static Stretching
-Plyometric Training 
-Are cola drinks good for the endurance?
-Music gives your running a boost
-Gear Review: Poles and Headlamps
& More

Asia Trail offers on this first issue special features on ultras, including the must-do ultras in Asia. Exclusive interview of the Hong Kong based elite athlete Stone Tsang.
In deep review of 21 hydration systems.

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