Making the jump to the next distance with Alex Varner

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Fitness, Health & Fitness, Sports, Running

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🗓️ 25 July 2014

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Alex Varner is an accomplished distance runner. In April he completed his first 50 mile race, Lake Sonoma 50 miler, where he came in fourth place and earning a birth in the Western States 100 Endurance Run. After just 2 1/2 months of training, he competed in his first 100 mile race finishing an impressive 7th place. He seemed like the perfect person to talk about the many different race distances and how they differ. From 5K to 100 miles, what are the differences in training, nutrition, pace, strategy, mental toughness, etc.

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0:00.0	This podcast is brought to you by Tailwind Nutrition, and sitting on the other end of this
0:15.6	line is Ultra Runner Mark Lance.
0:18.6	Mark's been on this podcast before, inside the head of an Ultra Runner.
0:21.8	That was a fun podcast.
0:23.7	We've got him scheduled for a full podcast coming up with all of his nuggets from a recent
0:28.4	Western States 1936 finish, and we'd like to welcome Mark Lance to talk a little bit about
0:35.6	Tailwind.
0:36.6	Mark?
0:37.6	Yeah.
0:38.6	Hey, thanks, Don.
0:39.6	You had to be back.
0:41.6	Yeah.
0:42.6	The race went pretty good.
0:44.6	Obviously, not one of my better times, but nonetheless, a solid performance.
0:50.2	And I decided this year to try something entirely new.
0:55.6	This is the time I'm an old school, and I like my water and my S-caps, but you were
1:01.8	kind enough to provide me some tailwind last year before Western States.
1:07.2	And I used it for part of the race and felt like it was a pretty good match, but I wasn't
1:12.2	able to really prove it to myself.
1:16.0	And this time around, I experimented with it a little bit more on some training runs
1:22.3	and decided to give it a go for the entire race this time.
1:25.5	And I was very satisfied.
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