30 Years of Extreme Endurance with Pam Reed (Episode 172)

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Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.9 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Women’s ultrarunning is on fire right now with powerhouses like recent Barkley Marathons finisher Jasmin Paris, 40, and Lululemon FURTHER 6-day record smasher Camille Herron, 42, showing the world what midlife women can do. This week, we sat down with ultrarunning legend Pam Reed, who broke ground for women in the sport decades ago, winning races like Badwater 135 outright in 2002 and 2003, and talking about menopause at a time when athletes rarely uttered the word.

Now 63, Pam is still blazing trails, most recently finishing the Hardrock 100, Badwater 135, and Western States Endurance Run–that’s 337.5 miles total–in a span of 22 days. We talk all about how she gets it done, the hurdles she’s faced, and what the future holds.

Pam Reed has been a prolific ultrarunner since she entered the sport in 1992. She quickly excelled and won on the track, road, and trails. She is most well-known for her back-to-back Badwater 135 overall wins in 2002 and 2003. Over her career, she has at least 30 ultra wins, including 13 wins in races of 100 miles or more. In 2021, she became the 19th known person in the world to achieve 100 100-mile finishes with at least 45 podiums in those 100-milers. She has finished 65 full Ironmans, including 10 at Kona, Hawaii. In 2005, Pam authored the book, The Extra Mile: One Woman’s Personal Journey to Ultra-Running Greatness. She was also the race director for the Tucson Marathon for 28 years.

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0:00.0	You are listening to Hit Play, Not Pause, a feisty menopause podcast for active performance-minded women.
0:14.6	I am your host, Celine Yeager. Each week, I bring you advice from athletes, scientists, researchers,
0:19.7	and other experts to help you feel and perform you best no matter what your hormones are doing.
0:25.0	This show is a production of Live Feisty Media.
0:31.0	Hello, strong feisty women. I hope you all are well.
0:35.8	So I have a real treat for you this week. I had the opportunity to sit down with the legendary ultra runner Pam Reed, which is really great timing because as most of you likely know, women's ultra running is fire right now. We have Jasmine Paris, just now breaking Barclay Marathons history
0:57.3	as the first woman to finish all five brutally, infamously difficult 20-mile loops in the 100-mile
1:04.4	events 35-year history. And of course, there's past Hit Play Not Pause guest Camille Heron,
1:10.2	who just smashed a ton of records,
1:13.1	including breaking the six-day women's world record by running 560 miles, racking up a staggering
1:21.1	220 laps of the 2.56 Mile Lululemon Further course that they just did a few weeks back, and she averaged 93.38
1:31.6	miles of running a day. I mean, it's amazing. Mind boggling. Mind boggling stuff. And equally,
1:38.8	mind boggling is what Pam Reed, who is now 63 years old, has been up to. Last summer, she finished the notoriously
1:48.0	difficult Hard Rock 100 in Colorado and under the 48-hour cutoff, which by itself would be badass enough.
1:56.0	But she did it a week after running the Badwater 135 in Death Valley, which came a week after completing
2:04.4	the Western States 100 mile endurance run? That means she ran 337 and a half miles in three events
2:15.2	over a span of 22 days. Let that sink in and do yourself a favor and Google
2:22.4	those events to just see how bonkers this really is. And this is just the most recent
2:28.3	accomplishment of a very long storied career. According to her 22 Hall of Fame induction bio, Pam has also racked up
2:38.2	at least 30 ultra wins, including 13 wins in races of 100 miles or more. In 2021, she became the
2:45.8	19th known person in the world to achieve 100-100-mile mile finishes with at least 45 podiums in those
2:53.2	hundred-milers. She has also finished dozens of Iron Man triathlons collecting numerous age
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