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Last May, Michael McKnight turned heads in the ultrarunning world by running 100 miles while consuming zero calories. That’s right: zero, zilch, none. Michael is a low carb endurance athlete that I was very interested in chatting with regarding low carb or keto diets in endurance athletes as I venture into further distances and more difficult challenges in the coming months and years. In addition to the zero calorie 100-miler, Michael is also a two time 200-mile triple crown winner. The Triple Crown is made up of the three original non-repetitive 200-mile trail running courses in the USA, the Bigfoot 200,...

It was May 27, 2012 and I had just completed my first marathon. The first words out of my mouth? “That was (expletive) stupid.” Running 26.22 miles was something I had been curious about for a while and crossing it off my bucket list less than a year before my 30th birthday was satisfying, but to think I’d ever want to do it again? Fat chance. Any runner can guess what happened next. I wanted to do it again and not only would I run another, I vowed I’d finish 30 in my thirties. First on my list was the...