Running Strong

51 - Jeremy Suwinski Interview

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Jeremy Suwinski is an athlete I met half-naked in the sauna at a gym where I used to work. I overheard him talking about some absurd distance he was about to run... so we started chatting.

Jeremy has been running ultras for almost 15 years, with some big accomplishments under his belt - like getting 2nd in the Moab 240 behind Michael McKnight in 2019.

He and I sat down to talk about racing 300+ miles, training, and "finding what keeps you on the left side of the white line." Want to know what that means? You'll have to listen to it.

  • Why Jeremy was recently in Germany for a chalk festival
  • Meeting Jeremy in the sauna at work
  • Heat training
  • Last Annual Heart of the South Road Race
  • Signing up to run 327 miles
  • The weirdest ultra in 15 years...
  • Existential lessons you learn alone in the middle of nowhere
  • You can't "find the groove"
  • Why being in the front made it harder in many ways
  • Being tapped by a car on the highway
  • The kindness of people
  • How a tragedy took Jeremy from hating running to running hundreds of miles.
  • Running from demons
  • Making the hard choice to keep going
  • Fighting the loneliness
  • The lack of human connection
  • The highs and lows of running
  • The kindness of strangers in times of need
  • Finding the extremes in your life
  • Talking to Laz at the end of the race
  • Trying to explain this to other people

    • Links:

    • Last Annual Heart of the South Website
    • Last Annual Heart of the South 2022 on YouTube

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