Episode 486: Inside The Pro Running World | Jacob Thomson
Human Performance Outliers Podcast with Zach Bitter
Zach Bitter
4.8 • 622 Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2026
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Jacob Thomson is a professional marathon runner for Under Armour. He recently raced Boston in a time of 2 hours 9 minutes 51 seconds. He co-hosts the Out and Back Podcast with Rory Linkletter. We discuss elite training, innovative shoe tech, the role of high in race carb fueling, doping influence on professional sports, and how to navigate the world of influence and sponsorship in running's modern era.
Jacob: thomsontraining.run | IG: @jtcougars8 | YT: @jacobthomson4360
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| 0:00.0 | We should just do our own podcast and just talk like we talk on these runs and keep stuff pretty frank and give people an inside look into the pro running world and, yeah, our opinions on things. |
| 0:10.2 | But yeah, I feel like a lot of podcasts are almost not too nice. |
| 0:13.9 | That's not the right word, but it's very surface level. |
| 0:16.3 | You know, everybody wants to be friends here. |
| 0:18.7 | We'll only ask you the nice, cool questions. That's ultimately what I'm interested in is finding my absolute limit, right? Like, what can I do in the marathon? Can I break 210, which I finally did? Now can I run 207? What, you know, how high up in the U.S. marathon scene can I get? Can I win races like that? Those are the things that are very |
| 0:37.5 | interesting to me. I feel like it is pretty rare to have someone who is at the top level of |
| 0:42.6 | sport also interested in coaching and interested in helping people. |
| 0:49.8 | Thanks for tuning into this episode of the Human Performance Outliers podcast with Zach Bitter. |
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