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Human Performance Outliers Podcast with Zach Bitter

Episode 431: Ultra Run Across Texas with Matt Johnson

Human Performance Outliers Podcast with Zach Bitter

Zach Bitter

Sports, Fitness, Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Hybridathlete, Ultra, Endurance, Ultramarathon, Running, Run

4.7615 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2025

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Matt Johnson got into running in 2020 after discovering a love for the sport following a difficult youth, and a career in the National Guard. Since, he has built a successful Instagram channel that blends competitiveness and humor. He took his love of running across the State of Texas, an 841 mile journey in 17 days, raising awareness for ValorFit.

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I wanted to have you on just to kind of talk about some of the stuff that you've been up to,

1:29.9

especially the run across Texas, because I really get interested in the multi-day stuff now.

1:37.2

I was going to run across the country back in, it was 2021, and I got injured right, right before like the last phase of training,

1:48.3

but too close to really justify going after the goals I was going to. So I had to cancel that.

1:54.3

And one of the things I kind of recognized through that process was that I probably had to do

1:58.1

a different approach in preparation for it. So since then, I plan to do it at some point, but I'd also know, like, I don't think I can do what I'm currently doing and just kind of shoehorn that in there. I think it has to be something where, all right, you got the 100-mile and stuff out of the system, now focus on something like that, and do some intermediate stuff in the in between too so i've talked to

2:19.6

a bunch of people have done transcon done like pacific crest appellation trail type stuff so these

2:25.2

really long kind of transcon type sessions uh but less with like those intermediate ones where

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