He Turned Down The Australian Team To Run Our Race

King of the Hill is two weeks out and Liam Henderson is back in the studio. Alex reckons it is the hardest race in Australia to win, and the reason is the hill that gives you nowhere to make up time once your pace drops. They get into who is going the distance, whether anyone would actually dope for 25 grand, and why a bloke turned down a spot in the Australian team just to be on that start line.

In this episode:
- Why King of the Hill is the hardest last one standing race in the country
- The 25 grand on the line and whether anyone would bother doping for it
- The gap between being fit enough and being ready operationally and mentally
- Troy's first crack at it and why physical fitness is the easy part
- The GoPro theory and why your Strava footage always looks slow
- Building weirder events, from a heart rate last one standing to a hybrid ultra
- Who the big dogs are and who Liam and the boys are tipping to win
- Why someone dropped their whole year for one race, and what that tells you

Timestamps:
(00:36) Liam Henderson back for round two
(01:13) What King of the Hill actually is, explained properly
(03:04) Why Liam keeps coming back to the most brutal challenge
(05:24) Shepparton and Ballarat, cooking his nutrition at 35K
(17:59) Would anyone dope for 25 grand and how you would even test it
(24:24) The park run doping experiment nobody asked for
(29:19) The GoPro theory and why fast running looks slow
(42:00) Troy on nerves, migraines and going operational for 30 hours
(45:00) Why the big dogs always win, and it is not the legs
(65:50) Why the hill makes it the hardest race to win
(84:18) Turning down the Australian team to run King of the Hill
(94:55) Why last one standing is the ultimate format
(52:00) The picks, Blaine, Piotr and the dads who go long

Full episode out now on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
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