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What is it Like to Run 135 Miles - with Josh Spector

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Fitness, Sports, Running, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 16 May 2014

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

We posted a video on April 9th about Josh Spector's experience running his first 135-mile race, The Brazil 135 To date it has had over 2 Million views - because it is that good!  Josh's first 135-mile run was on an unfamiliar course in a foreign country,  he talks to us about the difference between 100-milers and running 135 miles, how to prepare yourself for running in a foreign country, and how to enjoy the journey.

Josh is currently training for the grueling Badwater 135 this summer.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Today's Tailwind Nutrition is brought to us by Matt Fitzgerald.

0:12.9

He is an author, extraordinary, extreme athlete, endurance athlete.

0:16.8

You can find him at mattfitsgerald.org.

0:19.5

He has a whole library of books, Don.

0:24.0

Oh, I know.

0:25.0

I think there's over 20 books on there.

0:27.3

We've had it on the podcast.

0:28.5

We've talked about Racing Weight, which is a phenomenal book.

0:31.8

There's two kind of spin-offs to that book.

0:34.0

There's the Quick Start Racing Weight.

0:37.4

And then last year, he just released the Racing Weight Cookbook, which I assume Matt, that

0:41.9

was by your fans and readers saying, Matt, we need recipes, right?

0:47.5

Yeah, it was about 50% benefit, it was percent of the publisher saying, all right, how do we

0:53.0

keep this juggernaut rolling?

0:54.8

That's perfect.

0:55.8

Well, I think it's a great idea.

0:57.8

And speaking of rolling, the reason we reached out for a tip, and usually we just ask our

1:03.0

great athletes to talk about what's on their mind, but with this one, we specifically went

1:07.6

to Matt with this question.

1:09.4

As we're climbing hills out there, and we're running up and down, we started thinking about

1:13.6

power to weight ratio, and who better to address power to weight than Matt Fitzgerald.

1:18.6

So Matt, give us the skinny on power to weight.

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