Matt Carpenter

That should be fun.

We've also got the Matt Carpenter episode from Trail Con, the conversation that he did with Scott Jurek live on stage.

That's coming out on Thursday finally.

People have been asking me about that since, uh, we, we did that at Trail Con back in June, and we're happy to be able to publish that here in the Freetrail feed coming up on Thursday.

So yeah, it's, Do you know who started the database, the

results of the database? Matt Carpenter.

It was Matt.

Okay.

That's dominance.

Well,

there's only one other person who's won it six years in a row, and that was Matt Carpenter.

Right.

Our sport goes in cycles.

Like we've, we've had iterations years and years and years ago back when like Fila was in our sport, like, uh, uh, like sponsoring, um, uh, Matt Carpenter and guys like that.

There was prize money in the sport.

Big prize money.

So I think that's why the emphasis is certainly greater with athletes compared to the general population.

It's interesting because I was having a conversation, you know, Matt Carpenter, he does the, yeah, so he's a super, he does some really good reels.

And he actually did a really nice, because I'm in his email list, he did a really nice email where he reviewed one of your study that was in performance nutrition, where you, you know, your summary of the sodium.

And one of the things that, you know, he summarized it nicely.

Yeah.

Like, exactly your d- your description of like, exactly when do I put the he- headlamp on, and do I put the goo in this pocket or the gel in that pocket? W- how is, how from a movement standpoint do I optimize pulling out my jacket in the most efficient way? Maybe Matt Carpenter that we heard-

Yeah

... at Trail Con was the fo- you know, the, the forefather of that movement.

Like, I think he still like won Spartathlon and Badwater, you know.

But you put a 40-year-old Matt Carpenter on a pedestal.

His time was insane, dude.

Like I'd, I ran that course a lot, and I just knew that it wasn't, it wasn't insane, but I just knew that it was a stretch for me, you know? It was definitely a stretch for me.

And so, kinda went on to like a several year, like Seb would come and visit and we'd, like, run the course multiple times and just go run all over the mountains and then really try and, like, lay it down and race, um, on the event and yeah.

It kinda reminds me, this would've been 2005, but, like, just reading some of Matt Carpenter's blogs back in the day.

Yeah.

Like, he talks about, like, the ideal training block, and I think he did, like, eight straight months of two-plus hour runs on the course-

Yeah.

Or just, like, your, your love affair with it.

Yeah, like Matt Carpenter's a huge inspiration early days like that, y- just like, you know, cutting the, the strap off his watch band, like cutting it, shaving it down to save weight, like took his wedding ring off for Leadville.

Like that kind of level of, of dialing in, like, exact nutrition, number of sips that he would take between aid stations before switching his bladder out.