Thanks for tuning into this episode of the Human Performance Outliers podcast with Zach Bitter.

All right, everyone.

Welcome back to another episode of running the news.

So for these episodes, if you're new to this, it's just me covering some of the topics that are front and center in the running

news and a lot of current event type stuff. So by the nature of the timeliness of a lot of these

things, it's a little bit more off the cuff because I simply really don't have a whole lot of

time to do a lot of deep dive research into any of them. But I do think that will be fun just to

give a first past thought of stuff. And hopefully they'll generate some deep dive topics too. Because I think some of them. But I do think they will be fun just to give a first past thought of stuff.

And hopefully they'll generate some deep dive topics too. Because I think some of this stuff,

as we get more details around them, especially things that tend to stick, will merit some maybe deeper dives with guests and things like that. So if I'm ever talking about something on

one of these where you feel like my opinion is drifting too far from yours and you want to let me know, feel free to do that. And also let me know if there's a topic that I address it, you're like, hey, that would make an awesome deep dive episode, try to find a guest who knows more about this or can go back and forth with you about the topic itself. So that's how

these are going to be. Also, I did mention on the first one of these two. In the future, I am looking to possibly do some of these with co-hosts. And I've been thinking about some fun ways to do that. And one of the ways would be just to bring the listeners in to some degree, where if you listen to this podcast, you enjoy some of the content, you'd like to hop on a call with me for 20, 30 minutes

on a random Monday and just chat about some of the current events or things like that, then send me a note. I'd happy to get a list together of people who are interested in that, and then we can start maybe putting together a process where a listener brings in a topic, I bring a topic, and we both share kind of our opinions

on it, I have a little bit more of a back and forth conversation around it too.

So that's all kind of upcoming stuff with respect to that.

But for today's episode and today's topic, it would feel wrong for that not to be the Coca-Dona

250 after everything that kind of happened with that event recently, where we saw

this event just really go viral within not just the running world. I should say not just the

alt-running world or the running world, but mainstream media to a large degree. In fact, ESPN had some

clips on it. It was just one of those things where you

saw people who generally don't have interest in really running or ultra running and certainly

not multi-day ultra running. We're having discussions about it. So I think that's just a really cool

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