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Fitness Confidential

Ultrarunning NSNG

Fitness Confidential

Vinnie Tortorich

Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.72.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2015

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Carlos Dones joins Vinnie Tortorich to discuss running 170 miles through the Grand Canyon NSNG on this Saturday episode of the Angriest Trainer podcast. PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSOR Pure Vitamin Club WHO IS CARLOS? Has run over one million miles, rim to rim of Grand Canyon Was at the LA meet up -- Vinnie did a bike fitting for him and they became friends GRAND TO GRAND Carlos called Vinnie asking if this race (170 miles across the Grand Canyon) NSNG Vinnie had his doubts Carlos has to carry everything he is going to eat -- difficult due to time and heat 7 days, 6 stages, carrying everything you need Packaged, low sugar, minimum grain was the plan for Carlos Required to carry at least 14,000 calories Carlos carried 16,000 calories Carlos wanted to minimize sugar because he was becoming fat adapted Most of his food had between 2-3 grams of sugar Took UCAN bars, low sugar, Epic bars, turkey bars, beef bars Coconut oil, all types of nut butters 2 pre dehydrated meals per day Black beans, rice, vegetables ~600 calories per breakfast Averaging a marathon per day, mostly uphill Ate between 1000-1200 calories per day ~120 grams of sugar over the course of 7 days Carlos finished 34th place He did not crash at all Had no swelling, no elephantitis

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0:57.6

And now, America's Angriest Trainer, Vinny Torterich, with co-host Anna Pacino.

1:06.1

Why am I America's Anx trainer?

1:08.5

Your good intentions have been stolen, and I'm here to help you get them back.

1:13.2

I am Vinny Torterton, folks.

1:15.4

It's the Saturday show.

1:18.0

This was going to, usually this is a listener question.

1:21.3

This is going to be a little different today because this is going to kind of be a listener

1:24.6

not questioning me, but telling me how something turned out.

1:30.7

This guy just ran one million plus miles from rim to rim of the Grand Canyon.

1:39.2

I want to introduce to the show.

1:40.9

Actually, I was going to say for the first time, but he's actually been on the show before.

1:46.2

You may or may not remember, but when we had the get-together, you know, the meetup, Carlos Donez was there, and he was actually on Mike for a few minutes.

1:57.0

He asked a couple of really poignant questions.

2:00.0

I want to welcome my friend back to the show,

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