Finish Lines and Milestones · June 12 · 1 hr 5 min

Episode 164: Zach Burton - World's Fastest Caterpillar 🐛

⁠Zach Burton⁠ and I have been crossing paths in the Indy running community for a while now, most recently at the ⁠Full Mo 50K⁠, where he ran for the second year in a row. During this episode, sponsored by ⁠Goodr⁠ and ⁠Noogs⁠, we talk about: Running the Full Mo two years in a row — the second time on basically no training 🤣 How ultras flip the script on marathon pressure ("who cares what the time is, can you just run the mileage?") Growing up in Pike Township, playing baseball, and hating golf until he didn't Walking on to the Anderson University cross country team while commuting an hour each way and working nights in radio His rise at WZPL from weekend fill-in to music director and afternoon drive — as a 20-year-old The Two Faces for Radio pandemic podcast and interviewing artists like Sabrina Carpenter, Tate McRae, and Avril Lavigne How boredom + a random Instagram video led to Googling whether there was a world record for running a half marathon in a caterpillar costume (there was) The Guinness World Record process: three-month pre-approval, costume design sign-off, a GoPro-wielding cameraman running all 13.1, and a 3.5-month wait for the certificate 📜 Running the Indy Mini as a five-person caterpillar in 1:30 and getting smoked by the elites anyway Meeting his wife in middle school ("the old-fashioned way — online") and proposing to her center stage at Gainbridge Fieldhouse during a Jingle Jam concert with Lizzo headlining 💍 Blue Bell Cookie Two-Step ice cream, which he describes as "diabetes in a cup and the greatest thing ever" Previous Guests Mentioned ⁠⁠TJ Dailey⁠⁠ - Episode 68 ⁠⁠Mike Cole⁠⁠ - Episode 88 ⁠⁠Larry Coblentz⁠⁠ - Episode 9 Sponsor Details ⁠Goodr⁠ - Use ALLYB for $10 off your first order ⁠Noogs⁠ - Use ALLYB15 for 15% off your order Other Links Follow me on Instagram ⁠@allytbrett_runs⁠ ⁠Subscribe to Finish Lines & Milestones weekly newsletter⁠ This is a ⁠SandyBoy Productions⁠ podcast.

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⁠Zach Burton⁠ and I have been crossing paths in the Indy running community for a while now, most recently at the ⁠Full Mo 50K⁠, where he ran for the second year in a row.

During this episode, sponsored by ⁠Goodr⁠ and ⁠Noogs⁠, we talk about:

Running the Full Mo two years in a row — the second time on basically no training 🤣
How ultras flip the script on marathon pressure ("who cares what the time is, can you just run the mileage?")
Growing up in Pike Township, playing baseball, and hating golf until he didn't
Walking on to the Anderson University cross country team while commuting an hour each way and working nights in radio
His rise at WZPL from weekend fill-in to music director and afternoon drive — as a 20-year-old
The Two Faces for Radio pandemic podcast and interviewing artists like Sabrina Carpenter, Tate McRae, and Avril Lavigne
How boredom + a random Instagram video led to Googling whether there was a world record for running a half marathon in a caterpillar costume (there was)
The Guinness World Record process: three-month pre-approval, costume design sign-off, a GoPro-wielding cameraman running all 13.1, and a 3.5-month wait for the certificate 📜
Running the Indy Mini as a five-person caterpillar in 1:30 and getting smoked by the elites anyway
Meeting his wife in middle school ("the old-fashioned way — online") and proposing to her center stage at Gainbridge Fieldhouse during a Jingle Jam concert with Lizzo headlining 💍
Blue Bell Cookie Two-Step ice cream, which he describes as "diabetes in a cup and the greatest thing ever"

Previous Guests Mentioned