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What Physiology Matters for Ultramarathon Performance with Frederic Sabater Pastor PhD | Koopcast Episode 130

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The Longer Distances, You're Going to Run Out of Energy, Right?

M, see. I look at that is not all that's surprising. Anddand i think there's some dialogue in your a discussion section that i think alludes to this as well. The longer distance is, you're so far underneath your maximum energy production threshold, right? Or the maximum amount of energy that you can produced. That little bit of extra fat metabolism is kind of irrelevant to the actual performance, right? It doesn't actually boost it,. You're running a such os, such a smaller percentage of your max, of your true vo two max, that bumping your vo two max up might not have that big of a difference. In longer races, central fatigue is

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