Episode 446: WSER 100 - What We Learned

Human Performance Outliers Podcast with Zach Bitter

Zach Bitter

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

4.7 • 615 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

WSER 100 is becoming one of the most recognized and high stakes 100 mile ultramarathons for both professionals and ultramarathon participants. we can learn a lot about how participants are preparing and completing this event. Here are some things to consider from what we learned at the 2025 WSER 100.

Heat adaptation and in race management
The power of race day expectations
The psychology around group and competitive pressure
Considerations around varied weather events
The role of super shoes on the trails

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1:22.7	All right, everyone.
1:24.0	I want to do an episode here where I sort of unpack a little bit about the western
1:29.0	states endurance run which is a hundred mile run that starts in olympic valley and goes all the way to
1:37.4	auburn california so it's a pretty unique course in that you can kind of cut it into three main
1:43.8	categories one being the high
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