The beginning

The new plan is to dope. Completely legally. I'll be prepared, but I won't leave it to chance: I'll use my own bacteria to stay alive while I implement my new idea.

I am no longer a long distance runner and I have never been an ultra one. But just as you can enhance performance with EPO, you can also improve performance with microbiome transfer. Tarragona-Barcelona distance is roughly 93-94 km, that's more than a double marathon, and the number of my years twice. After my previously months-long planned route had changed significantly in the last few weeks, I wanted to find a challenge that would fit in well with the current situation.

There's little chance that I can imagine this being accomplished, but that's what the old Persians did: if a horse didn't run fast enough, they would transplant some horsepower from a well-performing competitor.

We are still working on the details, but one thing is for sure: I want to prepare half as much as the literature suggests for such a distance, and the rest I will try to do with the help of science and colleagues, by 15th of June 2024 at the latest. That is exactly 300 days. And today is day 5