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Human Performance Outliers Podcast with Zach Bitter

Episode 437: Backyard Ultras with Sam Harvey

Human Performance Outliers Podcast with Zach Bitter

Zach Bitter

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

4.7615 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Sam Harvey is one of the best Backyard Ultra runners in the World. He was part of the legendary push that resulted in three men breaking the World Record at the Big’s Backyard Ultra Championships in 2023. He has a wide range, which he recently showcased by winning the Tarawera 100 mile this year.

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description of how I use delta G ketones at the end of the episode. Yeah, it was I was excited to

1:40.8

chat with you. It's actually kind of funny. At the beginning of the year, I started using Krantz. And I'm building up for a hundred miler in June that I'm going to try to take a pretty big swing at. So I was just dialing everything in at the start of the year. I started working with them. And they were just telling me about some of the athletes on the roster. And like, you know what? And we were just talking about the podcast as well. And they were just like, you know, do you should check out Sam Harvey? He seems like he'd be a good guest for your podcast. And then when they said that, I was like, oh, that's awesome because I was following the backyard ultra that you did when you, Harvey Lewis, and I'm blanking on the third gentleman's name, all kind of had like a, yeah, yeah, yeah, had such an epic throwdown.

2:21.7

And I wouldn't say that that type of event wasn't already on the map in the ultra world, but that event really pushed it up in terms of like people, I think, starting to really wrap their head around like, oh man, how far can people push these backyard

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