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 part two of a guest interview that I did with Pam Smith.

For those of you who listened to the first one,

we went over Pam Smith's legendary ultramarathon running career.

I wanted to talk to Pam originally because she has one of the widest reaches successfully done

in the sport of ultra marathon running in my opinion on the

women's side of the sport. So the interesting thing about ultra marathon running for those of you

who only loosely or don't follow it all is we tend to call the sport ultra marathon running

and then loop a ton of variety into that. So I've talked about this a lot in the

past, but you can do a 50 kilometer road race. That's an ultra marathon. You can do a multi-day

200 plus miler out on some remote trails. And that's also an ultramarathonathoner and that's not even the extent of it all.

So it does become sort of this umbrella term that refers to a lot of pretty unique disciplines

that sometimes contradict one another in terms of where the skill sets that are going to make

you successful on them.

So I'm always interested when I bump into someone or hear about someone or follow someone

who has been able to really fine tune and be highly successful at a very wide variety of

this discipline that we call ultra marathon running.

And Pam Smith is right up there near the top with, you know,

historic wins and internationally quality times and distance covered in timed events

and things like that.

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