My first race on OFM. I'd made the shift like seven weeks before.

Zach Bitter and Peter Defty at Bestba had really mentored me, helped me with the shift,

and I was on kind of a crash course, you know, in OFM and Fat Adaptation.

But it was really like eye opening. one I went half the calories I normally would have taken in a hundred and at that point I had 2200s you know under my belt so I had a lot of data to compare it to. All of a sudden I'm doing half the calories. I never bonked. I felt awesome the whole race.

And I was like, hmm, there might be something to this because I feel really strong.

And I felt consistent the whole way and I'd always before that I'd

always dealt in hundreds with like somewhere in the race you're gonna bonk a

little like have a rough patch where you're like whoa man my energy is really low like I

didn't take enough gel or I need a gel you know or

something whereas this all of a sudden was like whoa I'm kind of bonkproof you

know that's kind of cool.

Greetings one and all in the dear ultra-running community. Welcome or welcome

back to the Billyang podcast. My name is Billy Yang. I am a

podcaster of course and a filmmaker and currently I have been a digital nomad

traveling through Colorado the great state of Colorado from early July on to the

time of this recording.

Mainly, let me see, I was out here early in the Silverton area

to get acclimated, both me and my partner, Hillary, who just completed her own 100 mile race outside of Hard Rock at the

high lonesome 100 this past weekend.

So part of that early arrival was for her to get acclimated for us to spend time in the

mountains and then for me to crew and pace my buddy Mike who despite his own

issues at Hard Rock, Gamely finished.

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