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.

Today I have the final episode of a four-part series where I am just walking you through

what my typical training cycle looks

like from just the inputs I'm targeting from a training standpoint, as well as the nutritional

inputs and how they match up with that training cycle. The final part of this is the ultra long run development.

The reason why I call it the ultra long run development is I am doing long runs or at least

building up to my long runs throughout my training cycle.

So as soon as I get into kind of the base development phase, I start adding

the component of a long run into my training system. But I'm looking at it a bit differently

during those early phases as I am during this last part. So the way I look at it is normal long run

development is going to be something where I find

like I'm going to yield the highest amount of quality probably around say like two to three,

maybe a little beyond three hours. Once you start getting beyond that, I start kind of shifting

that focus to like durations of long runs that are longer than

that need to be a little more specific to the pace or the intensity and if possible,

the environment at which I'm going to be racing at. So the race will dictate this. I've been using

the 100 mile basically as the example for this series

because I'm typically peaking for something of that duration or distance and that will help

kind of keep these things in terms of the context on track for everybody who's paying attention

to this. So the reason that that's important here is because as you get up to the distances

that are as far as 100 miles. And then if you get further than that within the ultra running world,

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