Okay, guys, welcome back to the HPO podcast this is number two the human performance outlier

podcast i have next to me zach bitter a definite human performance outlier he is

the crazy guy who broke the 12 hours of continuous running world record in the american record for

a hundred meters zach how are you doing today, man? Good, good.

Tell me, I got it, because I, you know, like I said, I just, I can't, I'm a strength athlete. I'm a, you know, I'm a, you know, I'm a guy who I want to be done within a minute if I can't. Hell, I'm trying to break this 100, 500 meter world record. It's supposed to be 100, 1 minute, 13 seconds. that's too long for me I won't be done before that so you run for you know half a day or

when you're talking about running a hundred one minute 13 seconds that's too long for me I want to be done before that so you run for

you know half a day or when you're talking about running a 24 hour race I don't think it's

to me that I just can't understand it tell me tell me about when you broke the the 100 mile

record tell me about that day what was it was going on that day yeah you know it was it was

interesting I was still relatively new in ultra running.

I hadn't done a whole bunch of, a whole, a lot of many hundred milers yet.

But I had actually had just recently done a 50-mileer, and based on my time and kind of pace there,

I thought I had a decent shot at being able to break the American record for 100 miles.

So I got invited to this event called the Desert Salsas Track Invitational where people

kind of target records, either outright or age group, typically ultra-marathon distance stuff

up to like 100 miles or 24 hours or kind of the two go-toes there. So I went to that and, you know,

that's where I set that record. Where was it? Where is that? It's actually in Phoenix, Arizona.

Yeah, they hosted December, thankfully, so weather is not too bad, but it's actually ideal some years.

You get like, you know, 70 degrees and sometimes overcast even so nice temperature not too much

humidity and nice low altitude so pretty good place to to bus records I imagine

yeah yeah it's set up nicely and you broke so you said you broke two records at

same day because you told me you were you before he was telling me that he ran the

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