Dirt Church Radio Trail Running · Episode 245 · July 4, 2023 · 1 hr 24 min

Sam Harvey, Never Surrender: The psychology and physiology of running for 101 hours

Kia ora e te whānau. This week Eugene and Matt sit down to speak with Sam Harvey fresh off his return from Dead Cow Gully. Sam was competing at the Australian Backyard Masters and managed a world record equalling 101 laps over four days and 677-odd kilometres. We talk to Sam about being (in his words) unreasonable, and what he felt going in, versus what he learned going out. Sam is (again, by his own admission) a fighter, and we talk about this desire to scrap with literally everyone and ever...