How To Build An Unbreakable Mind & Push Beyond Your Limits | Ayyoub El Osrouti | FO578 Raj Shamani
Ayyoub El Osrouti, a 27-year-old ultra runner from a Moroccan family in Germany, joins Raj Shamani after running 93 loops - about 623 kilometers - in a Backyard Ultra, a race of 6.7 kilometers every hour on the hour where only the last man standing finishes. He explains why his body, not his mind, ended the race: a swollen right side, an inner thigh inflamed from loop 40 and an Achilles problem from loop 87, and how four years of training taught him the line between discomfort and damage. He describes sleeping about 60 minutes across 93 hours in four-to-five-minute naps between loops, the hallucinations that come when sleep slips, and the David Goggins books and podcasts that turned him from a self-described black sheep who worked in his father's supermarket from age ten into a professional ultra runner coached by world record holder Sam Harvey. He also walks through his full training week of easy runs, intervals at 85 to 90 percent of race pace, long weekend sessions and three gym days. PARTIAL COVERAGE: this summary is built from the first portion of the episode's captions, roughly the first hour of a nearly three-hour conversation. All claims are the guest's own, not independently verified. Sponsor: ASUS ExpertBook. Nothing here is medical or training advice.
