Episode 443: Ultra Updates - Cheating in Ultra?

Human Performance Outliers Podcast with Zach Bitter

Zach Bitter

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

4.7 • 615 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

This episode covers some current topics in the ultramarathon world. Topics covered include; big name injuries a result of high volume training and shoes, has ultramarathon growth and access resulted in cheating, Gerda Steyn the Queen of Comrades.

Edit: Gerda Steyn has won Comrades 4x: '19, '23, '24, '25

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1:35.2	I'm coming to you solo today with a bit of an ultra running current event or topic-based
1:41.2	episode.
1:41.8	I'm going to start doing a few more of these as we see some interesting stories kind of roll across the ultra running scene. Try to keep them a little short, keep them a little more kind of off-the-cuff type stuff. So if it's kind of a first pass for me at some of these topics, and I'm very open to criticism and any way that I should be thinking about these things differently.
2:03.9	So if you listen to this one and be like, hey, Zach, you're way off base.
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