Ultra runner Helen Ryvar runs through an underpass in Wrexham during running a half marathon in Wrexham, Wales, in March.“I’m just an ordinary person doing extraordinary things,” says Ryvar, a single mother of three who runs her own cleaning business in normal daytime hours and pounds the streets, paths and trails of north Wales at a time when the rest of the world would typically be asleep.
“The runs have become the easy part — it’s juggling life that has become the daily ongoing task,” says Ryvar, who has a 17-year-old and 15-year-old twins. In nearly two years of running a half-marathon each day, Ryvar says she has had only one injury – and that was when she changed running shoes, which triggered an old glute injury.2. Have a balanced diet and early nights.Joyner says the main risks of an exercise workload such as Ryvar’s are orthopedic aches and pains and more severe things, such as stress fractures.