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'm your host, Zach Bitter, and today I have a guest interview for you.

Today's guest is Boyd Myers.

Boyd is what I'm calling a spontaneous endurance athlete, meaning he is sort of the opposite of kind of how I go about training for these

events in the sense where I like to pick an event that's, you know, quite a bit down the road

and maybe pick some tune up events and really

outline exactly what I'm going to do between the day I start structured training and getting

to that event. Boyd sort of randomly jumps into things, whether it be a spontaneous 100-mile race

or something he is about to do, which is he's going to run a full Ironman

one day followed by a half Ironman the next day over the course of a weekend in Waco, Texas,

as part of the Gold Star Initiative, which we talk about in the podcast.

You know, Boyd has an interesting background.

He was an Air Force vet, former bodybuilder.

He actually opened up a gym and had some success with that for, I believe, if I remember

correctly, nearly a decade. But he ended up selling that and then transitioning in his career,

which resulted in him gaining like 75 pounds, which he decided

was unwanted weight. And that's kind of what spurred his interest in triathlons and running

and all the stuff he's up to nowadays. One of the other reason I want to talk to Boyd was what

I mentioned before is that gold star initiative initiative which is a process where you carry a

flag for the running portion of a full iron man and half iron man on those back to back days so he got

asked to do that and he'll be carrying that flag during the run portion of the iron man waco full and

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