Training For The Long Haul Episode

Time to take the theory and talk about the practice—how does someone train to run for the long haul? Patrick Gallagher has been running endurance races for 17+ years. He has completed dozens of ultramarathons and countless road races from 5k to the marathon. Just a few of his running highlights include setting the course record at the Daytona 50 miler with a time that was in the top 70 times for a North American 50 mile finish in 2016, three-time finisher of the Barkley Fall Classic 50k (arguably the hardest 50k on the East Coast), Boston qualifier and finisher, and he will be competing at the Western States 100 in June of this year. Out of the last 600+ days he’s only missed three days of running, with the unbroken streak recently surpassing 470 days in a row. At 42, he feels stronger and more fit than he ever has and so much of his success, he says, can be attributed to increased consistency and reduced injuries. How does he run 100 miles one day and then run the next day without being injured? Is it true he ran 18+ miles immediately before a recent 4.6 mile race and still won his age group and 6th overall? Did he really run across Florida from Cedar Key to St. Augustine in the middle of July just because he thought it’d be a fun challenge? Do tattoos really make you faster? How gnarly are his feet?! What does he think about when running for 100 miles?! https://archive.org/download/TrainingForTheLongHaulAudio/Training%20for%20the%20Long%20Haul%20Audio.mp3