Thanks for tuning into this episode of the Human Performance Outliers podcast with Zach Bitter.

Welcome to episode 251 of HBO. For this episode, I spent some time catching up with Mickey Gregglia.

I always find it interesting to hear about the backstories of Ultramarathon athletes.

They certainly span a wide range, but it seems like there are a higher than average number

of interesting events that drive them into the sport of Ultramarathon.

Mickey certainly fits into this category.

He is a former international fashion model, but after realizing that wasn't the life he wanted,

he tried his hand at ultramarathons.

As often is the case, a lot of lessons were learned through trial and error in those

early days, but since then has produced results as high as winning the Badwater 135 and

setting the fastest crossing of the Atacama

desert and much more.

I hope you enjoy this conversation with Mickey and get a glance into both of our perspectives

around running very long distances.

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But Mickey, thanks for taking some time and coming on the show.

Well, Zach, it's a pleasure to be here. Thanks for having me.

Yeah, I've been having a lot of fun chatting with guys about some, just some of these, like, really long ultramarathons and some of these multi-day stuff.

And you've, you've definitely dipped your toe into kind of what I would consider, like, the vast array of different ultramarathons from the shorter stuff to the very, very long stuff.

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