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.

This is part two of a four-part series episodes that I am doing that are focused on the training cycle and

nutrition inputs that I follow when preparing for an ultramarathon race, which for me is usually

going to be peaking for something similar to like a hundred mile distance. So keep that in mind

as you think about like the order of operations of how I do these things in the training cycle and the nutrition inputs that I

use for them. If you didn't listen to the first one, which was the off season, I do encourage you

to go back and listen to that, at least at the beginning, because I do kind of highlight some

aspects of this training or this podcast episode series that I'm doing

that may be helpful in better understanding this episode and the following ones.

But for this particular episode, we're going to dive into what I call the base building

phase of my training and nutrition when preparing for ultramarathons.

All right.

So base building is the time of year where I'm kind of looking at two things, two main

things anyway.

One is I'm trying to get my training back to where I'm hitting some of the volume targets

that are more typical in the kind of the meat of my training cycle.

So I'm coming off that off season where I may have had like very little inputs on days

where I'm not very motivated, where I really feel like I need the rest and recovery.

And I'm starting to really add the running related structure back to my training.

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