Matt Johnson says ultra-endurance racing is 95% mental once you have base fitness. He points to Cole, who ran seven marathons in seven days, to show that the body adapts to repeated effort. Any fit person could do it, but mental toughness separates those who try from those who don't.
So how do you deal with the mental side of ultra endurance racing? What percentage of it is actually mental versus physical?
It depends on where you're at in the process, right? Like, at this point with me, I would say 95% of it is all mental and 5% of it is physical. Once you're in shape to run that distance— like, the reason why Cole feels so good today is because he's already done this type of stuff before. The 7 marathons in 7 days, his body is already like, oh, I remember this. So once that you kind of build that base, it's all here. Once you get there, it It's all mental, just like I said earlier. I truly believe anyone can move that distance if you are a fit human, but not everybody can do that.
