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Nathaniel Burness

Nathaniel Burness

Nathaniel Burness is an accomplished ultramarathon runner and course record holder who has set records at Hell Hole 50-mile and Beast of the East races, appearing as a guest on Blueprint to Ultra podcast.

Jul 24, 2026

24:49
Yeah, I'd love a backstory.
24:50
So moving from Hawaii to South Carolina, I sort of had gotten into this, like, I think I had originally searched it up as like, oh, runners need to be fueling well.
24:58
So I need to make sure I know what I'm like putting in my body.
25:01
And the immediate thing you do is at least what I did was like, oh, look up how many calories you need per day.
25:06
Try to figure that out.
25:07
i was pretty light at the time i'm pretty sure i'm five five foot seven so you put it into like an online calculator it doesn't spit out a very high number i'm like 100 miles per week and i'm like okay well i guess this is what i need per day so i'm kind of going off of that over time it's i'm just not eating enough in general it gradually goes very downhill i don't actually lose that much weight because again i'm already pretty light so there's not much to be losing.
25:32
I just gradually get very tired over time.

17 MINS LATER

42:10
How do you survive

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