From Too Scared to Start to a World Record with Meg Eckert

Podcast: Becoming Ultra · Athlete On Fire

Opublikowano: 2026-10-21

Meg Eckert once trained for a 5K and was too afraid to show up at the starting line. Now she's one of the best multi-day runners in the world. Meg joins Scott to talk about starting to run at 29, discovering trails, quitting smoking, learning through her first ultras, and developing a relationship with running built around curiosity, consistency and genuinely enjoying the process. They also dig into Meg's incredible performance at the 2026 GOMU 6-Day World Championship in Hungary, where she covered 636.482 miles (1,024.319 km) in six days. She won the race outright, broke her own women's s...