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

All right, folks, welcome to episode 268 of the Human Performance Outliers podcast.

A few updates before we dive in with today's guest, Dr. Mark Kukazella. This past week, I had a bit

of a crazy travel schedule attending the running event in Austin before hopping on a flight to

Sacramento to help guide one of my coaching clients, Charles Katerall, who has a visual impairment

at the California International Marathon. I'd been coaching Charles for

about the past few months, targeting his marathon goals. So it was a lot of fun to meet him in

person and help him navigate the course. While I was in Austin at the running event, I recorded

a live episode with Aaron Alexander. I have to get the files for that one, edited and ready, but we dove into topics around movement.

We hit breathing the hardest and realized pretty quickly the hour we had scheduled was nowhere near enough time.

So we will be doing some future recordings to cover some of the other movement-related topics that Aaron is passionate about. So look for that one to come out

in the future. Today's guest, Dr. Marco Gazzela, is an Air Force Reserve Lieutenant Colonel.

He practices family medicine in Ranssen and Martinsburg, West Virginia.

He is a professor at the West Virginia University School of Medicine and conducts healthy running

medical education courses. He has run competitively for almost four decades with more than

100 marathon and ultramarathon finishes and he continues to compete as a national level

master's runner and has a streak of 30 straight years of running under a three-hour marathon.

Mark owns the first minimalist running and walking store called Two Rivers Treads in his hometown

of Shepardstown, West Virginia.

He is also the author of Run for Your Life.

So Mark has his hands in a lot of different areas, so it's always fun to catch up with him

and see what is new and changing in his life.

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