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

All right, 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.

Today's solo episode is going to be a bit of a recap on my training or preparation for

the Havelina 100, which when this episode comes out will be probably just a little under a

week or so from the start of the race. So I thought it would be a good time just to do a recap

kind of on just everything that went into the preparation for it. And one of the reasons why I'm

excited to do it for this particular race versus some of the prior race reflection, race training

reflections is because in the buildup for this particular 100-mileer, I released a bunch

episodes just on training. And a lot of times they were focused on kind of simplifying it or putting it in a

perspective where people could have a really good starting point or a really good

assessment point to kind of find out if they are more or less heading in the right direction

or planning their order of operations, so to speak, properly.

And just thinking about the right things when it comes to programming, training and

preparing for races, whether it be something like I'm doing 100-mile distance or even more

standard distances like 5Ks, 10-Ks, half-marathons, marathons, or what I call Olympic distance

events.

So this one is also a little bit more exciting to reflect on because in the last couple of years,

I've just had more issues with injuries than I had historically had in my career.

So there's been a little bit of a variance kind of in how my buildups have gone

relative to what I was able to maybe do at times in the past when I was compounding

really solid training blocks on top of one another. And this one just felt a little different

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