Run To The Top Podcast | The Ultimate Guide To Running

In May of 2021, two ultrarunners named David Kilgore and Margot Fleming were invited to a unique event whose only rules are there are no rules and there are no spectators.  In the spirit of Hunter S Thompson’s mind-expanding trip across the desert in the iconic book Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas, The Speed Project is a race from Los Angeles to Las Vegas.  The route is anywhere from 300 to 340 miles and is a journey just as counter culture as Thompson’s book, just without the drugs. David and Margot were each supported by their crews on this multi-day race and to make things more interesting for all of us data-lovers, they had their biometrics measured the whole time by a wearable technology device called WHOOP.  WHOOP measured their heart rate, heart rate variability, sleep quality, recovery and more. You would think that after 50 to 80 mile days of running in the desert, all biometric trends would progressively get worse as each athlete deteriorated with the effort.  But that’s not what happened. A little b