Episode 246: Running Over 70 Miles Per Day Across America - Pete Kostelnick
Human Performance Outliers Podcast with Zach Bitter
Zach Bitter
4.8 • 622 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2021
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Pete has the World Record for the Transcontinental Run (San Fran - NYC), and has averaged over 50 miles per day, self supported, from Kenai Alaska to Key West Florida (Ke2Key), which is a 5300 mile journey.
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| 1:09.1 | All right, folks, welcome back to another episode of HPO. |
| 1:13.3 | Podcast. |
| 1:14.2 | This episode has been one I've been kind of anticipating for a bit here, and I'm excited about it. |
| 1:19.4 | I've got Pete Kosselnick coming on the show here today, and he is the man when it comes to |
| 1:25.8 | multi-day long haul, whether it be supported or unsupported efforts. |
| 1:30.8 | He's done some huge projects. He's the record holder for the cross-country or transcontinental |
| 1:36.8 | run where you run from San Francisco to New York. It's a slightly over 3,000 mile route or |
| 1:41.9 | 5,000 kilometer route. And he averaged just over 72 miles a day |
| 1:47.9 | for that effort, setting the record. And he's going to share some of his stories about that, |
| 1:54.0 | some of the stuff that was insightful for that as I'm kind of planning on following his footsteps |
| 2:00.0 | in September. And I actually, when I think of Pete, I also think of another big project |
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