Episode 481: Multi-day & Backyard Ultras | Mark Dowdle
Human Performance Outliers Podcast with Zach Bitter
Zach Bitter
4.8 • 622 Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2026
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
Mark Dowdle specializes in long multi-day and backyard ultramarathons. He shares his experience coming from a non-running background. We discuss what makes multi-day ultras and backyard ultras unique and how the variables impacting performance shift compared to shorter ultras and endurance events.
Mark Dowdle: www.mark-dowdle.com | IG: @mark.dowdle | YT: @mark.dowdle
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| 0:00.0 | Like the most recent example, this is probably had Rachel Antrikan on, who's just crushing the multi-day 200 plus mile stuff. And other things, too, she was just third at a really, really tight throwdown between the podium that include Courtney DeWalter at Siente 120K this weekend. So it's like, she's doing everything at this point. And I was asking her about training. And she's like, oh, you know, I just kind of go out and run. And yeah, I asked her about intervals. And she's like, |
| 0:24.1 | well, sometimes I run a little harder than other time. I see stress as a huge, huge, huge variable that |
| 0:33.6 | I don't think enough people talk about. Whereas I could, you know, there was a time in my life where I was writing out every meal |
| 0:43.0 | that I ate that day to like count the calories just to make sure that I was getting the right |
| 0:47.8 | nutrition for the output that I was burning that day. |
| 0:51.7 | And I had no fun doing it. |
| 0:53.3 | It caused more stress to my life. |
| 0:55.7 | And that stress, I felt, was more detrimental |
| 1:00.2 | than the benefit of getting all of the nutrients I needed that day |
| 1:04.6 | or just like knowing that I got all of that. |
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