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 solo episode for you.

This episode is listener-generated questions and topics that got sent in to me through

Instagram.

The four questions and topics I'm going to hit on for this episode include advice on

a flat ultramarathon.

The question specifically was asking about a flat 50-miler and even more specifically the

JFK 50-mile.

Advice on running the first 50-kilometer, how to get into ultramarathons, and a beginner

a beginner running a 50 kilometer after eight weeks of prep and then doubling down and doing a 50

mileer eight weeks after that. And their question essentially is, is this a good idea or a bad

idea? So those are the four topics we're going to jump into for today. Before we get rolling

with that, though, coming up on the show, I was able to actually sit down with Nick Bear up at his studio just north of Austin and dive a bit into his lifestyle.

Nick is interesting to me as he participates and documents such a wide range of physical challenges, including strength and endurance on the running side of

things, which I was obviously particularly interested in. He has challenged himself to do things

like break a sub five minute mile, which he did in, I think, four minutes and 53 seconds,

run a couple of sub 250 marathons over the years, and then also run both the Leadville and Rocky Raccoon 100 Mile events.

So I wanted to chat to him about those two kind of more specifically.

And then the Rocky Raccoon 100 Mile actually coached him for that one.

So that was kind of fun to catch up with him to hear how his thoughts of that experience

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