Episode 433: Ultramarathon Record Keeping - Trishul Cherns & Bob Hearn

Human Performance Outliers Podcast with Zach Bitter

Zach Bitter

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

4.7 • 615 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2025

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Trishul and Bob are the President and Record Keeper for the Global Organization of Multi-day Ultrarunners (GOMU). GOMU was established to supplement the existing government bodies that only recognize records of certain ultramarathon events. Both Trishul and Bob have rich histories in ultramarathon, with 100s of official events to their names. We dive into their experiences as well as the growing needs when it comes to rules and record keeping that are specific to the needs of ultrarunning. A few topics we focused on include: pacing in ultramarathon, course certification, shoe tech, and certifying record performances.

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1:06.5	Well, Bob and Trishel, thank you for taking some time and coming on the podcast.
1:10.9	Thank you very much for having us. Thank you, Zach. Yeah, yeah, I know there's a lot of stuff we could jump into with this one. And I feel like I've kind of primed the audience a little bit, at least, with having Davy Crockett on the show a few episodes ago and kind of diving into some of the history of the sport and maybe maybe for
1:28.8	some of the listeners introducing some some nuance in terms of kind of where some of these crazy
1:32.8	events we do today came from or or in some respects like even crazier when you go back far
1:38.3	enough right yeah yeah so yeah so you know the sport goes back you know back to 1700s you know
1:49.6	when they had the history the history is where ultra running actually comes from
1:55.1	multi-day running which GOM was all about is the the origins of what ultra-running is today.
2:03.6	You know, whether it's a six-day race or the 1,000-mile race, or they had hourly races,
2:09.6	where they did a mile an hour for a thousand hours, all these incredible feats of endurance.
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