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

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

I am your host, Zach Bitter.

And today I'm coming to you with a solo episode.

This episode is going to be a bit of a reflection,

actually, on a previous guest in review. I recently released an episode with Alexander

Serochin, and I wanted to talk to him about a variety of different things, one of which was

his most recent 24-hour world record, where he ran 198.6 miles in 24 hours,

which comes out to a 7 minute, 15 second per mile pace.

A few things stood out to me about that record that made it a really interesting conversation.

One was just, I mean, the absurdity of that amount of miles and 24 hours uh obviously uh his training

was something that really stood out to me too this prep leading into it i wanted to hear about

kind of maybe a little bit about the howls and wise with that uh and i also just wanted to cover

his background because he's got a really interesting backstory. This wasn't his first world record.

This is the first of many.

So trying to understand what kind of all came together for this particular one and potentially how some of the previous ones played into that.

One thing I've talked about a bit on other podcasts and this one as well is just this

idea that it gets really fun to really do a deep dive and look into like, well,

what did this person do when they were peaking for this race they ran?

Like what was their like eight week bill leading into their taper look like?

And there's some cool, valuable stuff you can learn from those type of things.

But ultimately, if you just look at that, you're missing a huge component of what likely got

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