Episode 445: Jeff Garmire | Cocodona, Media, & Doping Control in Ultra
Human Performance Outliers Podcast with Zach Bitter
Zach Bitter
4.7 • 615 Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2025
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Jeff Garmire is a professional ultramarathon athlete, coach, author, podcast host, and one of a very few to have participated in all Cocodona 250 events. Long ultras are not even long for Jeff, as he has also completed some monster through hikes like John Muir Trail, Arizona Trail, Continental Divide and more. He is currently gearing up for an unsupported attempt on the Appalachian Trail in August.
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| 1:17.0 | be found in the show notes and at the end of the episode. Jeff, thanks a bunch for taking some |
| 1:24.9 | time to chat with me. I was kind of just looking over some of the stuff I |
| 1:29.3 | wanted to talk to you about. And I went down the Jeff Garmeyer rabbit hole. And I was, you know, I usually do this when I have a guest on. I'll like listen to some podcasts, some work that they've done and all that stuff just to kind of get an idea of like where the topic is that's going to be |
| 1:44.5 | interesting and with yours as i was going down the rabbit hole i quickly diverted down one channel |
| 1:52.1 | which was uh the trail tm tm z and the the geoffrey awards which took up a lot time, but it was very much worth the while. |
| 2:02.9 | So I do want to chat a little bit about just kind of like your style with like media and |
| 2:06.7 | social media and just like your YouTube channel and things like that. |
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