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

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

I'm your host, Zach Bitter.

And today I have an episode here where I'm just going to break down some of my training so far the last, I guess,

couple months, but more specifically the last kind of training block. Just to kind of give

you a highlight of my training approach and kind of what I've been up to, how I'm doing

things maybe differently at this point versus what I was doing last year at this time or

at this phase in a training block

and some of the reasoning why and things like that.

And it just felt like a good time to do it too because this last weekend I also participated

in the Rocky Raccoon 100 mile race where my goal was a bit different than most 100 miles

I normally do.

I'm not unfamiliar with using races and training or as long runs. I've done that with like 50Ks through 100Ks in the past. Never before with

100 miler, but this wasn't necessarily a simulation for like long run development the way it would be with

those ones it was more an opportunity to practice a fueling strategy that I've been working on

the last few weeks and it is something where my biggest concern with it would be some sort of

digestive or gastro intestinal issue so it's very difficult to stress test that sort of thing in training when you're preparing

specifically for like 100 mile races because there's just no workout, even the long run.

That's going to get remotely close to the duration, which is going to be a very important

variable when it comes to digestion is that duration or the time you're actually

trying to kind of feed during these events. So in order to really stress test it, I sort of needed

a opportunity to actually get out there and run for quite a while or the actual distance of 100

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