Zach Bitter 100 Miles in 11:40
Trail Runner Nation
Trail Runner Nation
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2016
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Zach Bitter's 402.5 laps around the track at the Desert Solstice Track Invitational held in Phoenix AZ in 11 hours, 40 minutes and 55 seconds is enough to capture the New American Record. Keep in mind, the record he broke was his own.
Zach averaged a 7:00/mile pace. This remarkable pace includes anytime needed to stop and refuel, gear change, problem solve and anything else that can pop up in 100 miles.
Join co-hosts Ann Trason and Sally McRae as we talk about fast times, pure running, fat adapted athletes and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Every trail runner needs a torch. |
| 0:07.8 | Petsal.com makes the best ones. |
| 0:10.7 | You know, it's in the northern hemisphere. |
| 0:12.8 | It is still in the winter time. |
| 0:14.9 | We have long nights. |
| 0:16.9 | It's dark out there. |
| 0:17.9 | A lot of the times that we're going out there and running, right? |
| 0:20.4 | Absolutely. |
| 0:21.4 | And in some of the parts of the northern hemisphere, it's a little chilly. |
| 0:25.1 | And so it's nice to have a bright, warm glow of a torch. |
| 0:29.5 | So Scott, is that why you always have me follow you? |
| 0:32.7 | So I can cast my warm beam on you on your back of your legs. |
| 0:36.9 | It helps. |
| 0:39.4 | We are fans of the reactive lighting that you can find in the now and the TICA RXP. |
| 0:46.1 | I had yesterday a person that I was introducing this torch to and we went into a dark room. |
| 0:52.1 | And I had such fun just showing how this reactive lighting won, how it lights up the room. |
| 0:57.5 | And to how it works, so we're looking down and looking up, it was a fun demonstration. |
| 1:02.6 | So if you don't know what reactive lighting is, it's a sensor in the head lamp itself that |
| 1:07.7 | reacts to where you're looking. |
| 1:09.7 | So if you look down in front of you, it casts a broad spectrum of light. |
| 1:15.7 | So you can see all the whole perimeter, a panorama, if you will, of your conditions. |
| 1:22.8 | If you look up and you look out, it automatically changes the beam to a spotlight that goes forever. |
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