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 a guest interview for you today.

Today's guest is Christian Morgan.

Christian's actually a returning guest.

He came on earlier

for episode of 338 where we talked about some of these long haul ultramarathons where

multi days probably not even doing it justice because some of these are like literally

weeks, if not months. So specifically we were focusing on the Appalachian Trail with Christian because he had

been on that one for three attempts, I believe at the time, which is a 2,200 mile stretch. So people who

are just like moving through that as quickly as they can are up into the 40 plus day range for those

things. Well, Christian just recently broke the fastest known time for the southbound route,

meaning he went south to north.

There's also a north to southbound time and fastest known time.

So Christian now has the second fastest time on that trail, which I believe was 44 days,

four hours, 54 minutes, and just recently got the fastest known time for the southbound,

which is 45 days, four hours, and 27 minutes.

So I wanted to see what all that entailed.

It was an interesting discussion because apparently

the conditions just weren't great relative to what he's seen in the past yet he managed to get

through it quicker. So it's fun to kind of dive into some specifics and add to some of the stuff

we talked about on the previous episode. So Christian's here to chat about all things long haul

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