Hello and welcome back to the Not So Fit Couple podcast with your hosts Lucy Davis.

I'm Benjamin Halden.

On today's episode, we have Zach Bitter and he is an American ultramarathon runner

and has held world records for the 100 mile run and the 12 hour run.

He completed 100 miles, which is 160K, in a time of 11 hours, 19 minutes and 13 seconds.

Zach's endurance athlete and coach, he's broken multiple world and American records throughout his

whole career and has helped thousands of runners reach their personal goals.

In this week's episode, we'll be covering the mindset of an ultramarathon runner, what it takes,

his nutrition, his training, some of the mistakes that other runners make when they're

going into their first marathons or ultramarathans, a type of shoes and shoe mistakes that people

make, and then also the best time to poo.

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spotify enjoy so thanks for coming on today Zach massively appreciated and both me and lucy are

huge fans and we're really fascinated by your accomplishments and your

story and just the fucking crazy feats and accomplishments that you've managed over your

career so far and especially with since me and lucy've gotten more and more into running and

lucy signed up for her first ultra i've signed up for my first marathon this year

would you mind just explaining telling people a little bit about a little bit about your

achievements and your sort of history of running yeah yeah i got into running i think uh at a

pretty early age uh you know i was curious about sports in general,

loved them. My parents were very kind of proactive that I was doing something, I guess I would say,

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