76: Jessica Zaiss

In today's episode I chat with Jessica (Jess) Zaiss about completing her Ironman Double.

She raced Ironman Maryland and Ironman Chattanooga on two consecutive days in the fall of 2019. We (me and Jess) think that there are only two other women who have completed this challenge Katherine Olsen and Rebecca Fink.

We chat about how this crazy idea came about.

How she and her team made it happen how she trained for this crazy challenge.

We talk about all the different kinds of ultra endurance triathlons that we know about and what makes this challenge unique.

We go through her weekend and how it all came together. I have interviewed two other people who have completed Ironman Doubles. Luis Alvarez and Benjamin Vargas but each story is different.

We chat about what she's been up to since she did this.

As you can imagine, this is not Jess's first or only ultra endurance activity. In fact it took us a while to schedule this interview because she was busy training for and racing Ultraman Florida. Ultraman is very similar but also very different and we talk about the differences.

Jess also teaches me about some new other crazy challenges that I had not hear of including Epic 10 and the Speed Factor.

You an find Jess on Instagram @see.zaiss.race She is also on Facebook.

This is a great interview. Enjoy and I hope this interview helps motivate you as you train for your next endurance challenge.

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