504. Jacky Hunt-Broersma, Running 100 Marathons in 100 Days

Ali on the Run Show

Ali Feller

Fitness, Sports, Running, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

"I'm tired. But I'm feeling pretty good. I've got a job to do and I need to do it and that's kind of it. I'm on a mission. I just need to get it done."

Jacky Hunt-Broersma is on a quest to run 100 marathons in 100 days. That's 26.2 miles every single day for 100 days straight, while raising money for Amputee Blade Runners. We recorded this episode together at 8 AM on Day 75. Jacky — a running coach and ultramarathoner whose next goal is the Moab 240 Endurance Run — had just gotten her two kids off to school, and was getting ready for marathon number 75. In this conversation, we get to know the Jacky today, who is more than 3/4 of the way through her record-setting challenge. And we get to know the 26-year-old Jacky from 2001, who woke up one day with a golf ball-sized mass on her leg. She was diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma, a rare cancer, and had her leg amputated just weeks after the diagnosis. It wasn't until 15 years later that Jacky started running, and she says her only regret is that she didn't start sooner. In this conversation, Jacky talks about the highest (running with her daughter!) and lowest (Day 35) points of this 100-marathon challenge, about dealing with mom guilt along the way, and about her plans for marathon #92, which she'll run in the para division of the Boston Marathon.

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What you'll get on this episode:

How Jacky was feeling at 8 AM on Day 75, and her plan for the day (5:20)
How Jacky got through an especially tough run recently (9:50)
Jacky's running must-haves (16:00)
How Jacky is feeling emotionally (17:40)
All about the recovery process during this adventure (19:40)
How Jacky is involving her children and family in this process (23:00)
Jacky's cancer story, and how she found running (25:50)
Learning to run with a running blade (39:20)
All about Jacky's 100 marathons in 100 days challenge (44:00)
Jacky's plans for the Boston Marathon, and for marathon #100 (51:00)
Jacky's most memorable marathons so far — and the day that "nearly broke her" (53:15)

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0:00.0	This episode of The Alley on the Run Show is brought to you by the Atlanta Journal Constitution
0:05.2	Peach Tree Road Race. Virtual registration for the July 4th event is going on now.
0:12.2	Sign up today at AJC.com slash Peach Tree.
0:20.7	Welcome to The Alley on the Run Show. I'm your host Allie Felor and I am putting the last
0:26.0	Friendship Fest episode on pause for one week because I want everyone to know right now about
0:32.1	Jackie Hunt, Bruce Mah. If you follow her on Instagram, she's NC runner Jackie, Jackie with a Y,
0:39.3	then you already know what she is up to. This woman is incredible. She is on a quest to run 100
0:46.6	Marathons in 100 days. That means 1 marathon, 26.2 miles, every single day for 100 days straight.
0:57.3	I know. I'm passing in for a second. We recorded this on day 75. It was 8am. Jackie had just gotten
1:05.3	her kids off to school and she was getting ready for her 75th marathon. Well, it's kind of her 76th
1:13.0	marathon 75th day, 76th marathon. You will understand that when you hear her talk in this episode
1:19.3	about day 35. Yeah, day 35 was a dark day for Jackie. Jackie lives in Arizona with her husband and
1:26.6	their two kids and in addition to running 100 Marathons in 100 days, she's also a coach, an ultra
1:33.4	runner, a cancer survivor and an amputee. In 2001, 26-year-old Jackie woke up with a golf ball-sized
1:42.5	mass on her leg. She was diagnosed with a rare cancer and just weeks later, she was in surgery,
1:48.7	having her leg amputated. It wasn't until 15 years later that Jackie discovered running.
1:55.4	And her only regret, she says, is that she didn't find it sooner. Jackie is a remarkable woman
2:02.0	and she'll be running in the parade vision at the Boston Marathon in just a few weeks. So,
2:06.8	if you'll be out there, give this woman some cheers and some love. Lost in Walmart for 90 second
2:13.6	marathon in this challenge. Before we get into this conversation, I am here to remind you that you
2:19.2	can now sign up for the AJC Peachtree Road Race's virtual edition. I know, I know, virtual races.
2:26.4	They are still around and there's a really good reason why. Well, lots of good reasons,
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