How To Kill Doubt, Generate Evidence, And Leave Every Race An Honest Man — Alexander Lingaur On Overcoming His Demons And Running For 37 Hours Straight / 154 Miles At BPN G1M Ultra

THE RUNNING EFFECT PODCAST

Dominic Schlueter

Sports, Running

4.9 • 822 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2026

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Forty-five days ago, he told TRE he didn't know if he liked running anymore.

Then he ran 37 loops.

Aleksander Piotr Lingauer showed up to the 2026 BPN Go One More Ultra carrying more than a race bib. He carried a childhood spent in foster care across England and Germany, a nervous system that had been shutting down in the weeks before the start line, and a verse from Joel written on his shirt.

What he left with was something harder to name—and that's what this conversation is about.

This is the post-race debrief Dominic promised to deliver in person. From the moment Aleksander flew to New York on a swollen ankle just to run 8K with a guy he admired on the internet, to crewing for Kim Gottwald through storm-halted loops in Texas, to finally hearing his own name called as a competitor—every decision in this story was made on instinct, and every one of them changed his life.

On the course: barefoot through the mud, keeping strangers in the race when they were about to quit, hallucinating a dragon somewhere in the second night, and fighting his way through doubt that even Mark Dowdle admitted he'd felt.

Aleksander's answer to all of it was simple: if you fail to try, doubt wins.

He left the loop an honest man.

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, we're rolling. I'm going to start with this. Alexander Lingawa DMs me, August 25th, 2024.
0:07.7	Brother, I just finished your conversation with Zach, pogrom. Your content has been top-notch for a long effing time now, and it's been a pleasure watching you develop.
0:15.1	I'm reaching out to document here that you and I will one day sit down for your podcast. By then, having already established a genuine friendship, don't take that foot off the effing gas man, blast straight into the effing stratosphere. You're going to go all the effing way, and I'll see you there. Much love, APL. We've done two podcasts with each other, I believe, and now we're going to sit down with each other in person. Last conversation released March 4th, I promised you, I believe. And now we get to sit down with each other in person.
0:40.2	Last conversation released March 4th.
0:44.8	I promised you that I would be there in person to share a post-race hug or a hug of sorts.
0:45.8	We established that outside.
0:47.6	I was on the phone, unfortunately, taking care of some business.
0:50.5	But here we are in person.
0:53.0	How has your life changed since that
0:55.1	DM August 2024 August 20th I was just finishing a piece 61 I must have been
1:06.8	around day maybe 55 of my 61 day cross-Germany run.
1:14.6	It was evening in Germany, and I DM'd you right after I listened to the episode.
1:19.1	I remember that very well.
1:21.0	My life since, I have been able to make whatever this sport is, whatever this life is, into a sort of living.
1:36.5	This is now my predominant way through that I, this is what I put most of myself into now.
1:46.0	I've become very close friends with Zach.
1:48.0	He is the connective tissue between me and almost all good things
1:52.0	that have happened to me in this space.
1:54.0	It's very interesting.
1:55.0	Very good man, very good friend.
1:58.0	And like I said in that DM, like I foreshadowed, I'm very comfortable saying
2:04.7	we've become friends. And now after this race, much of what we discussed in the last
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