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

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

I'm your host Zach Bitter.

And today I have a guest interview for you.

Today's guest is Christian Morgan.

Christian Morgan is an ultramarathon athlete who

focuses on long trail projects. He currently holds the second fastest completion of the Appalachian

Trail, which he completed in 44 days, four hours, 54 minutes. Christian is currently gearing up for

another attempt. One reason I wanted to talk to Christian was for the obvious reason, he's gearing up for

another attempt to cover the 2000-plus mile track that is the Appalachian Trail.

But I wanted to hear a little bit of his background, too.

I think one of the things I find really interesting about these long trail and just

like this long haul type individuals is there's an element to ultra marathoning that I find really interesting in the single day stuff, like the 100 mile distance or around that type, where you get this kind of approach of obviously doing more of them gains you experience and this

ability to likely better navigate situations that you were unfamiliar with before.

But there's also a little bit of this ignorance as bliss type of situation early on in

ultra running and when you do new distance for the first time where you just really don't know

necessarily what you're getting yourself into because you've never been in the situation before.

And, you know, if things get dark during those times, the next time you do it, you go on with

that knowledge. And I think it's definitely manageable, obviously, although people wouldn't come

back and do these things time and

time again. But when we're talking about projects to the length of the Appalachian Trail

and things that are taking 44 days in nature, I find it really interesting when people

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