Badwater 135 and Badass Course Records with Michelle Barton
Run to the Top Podcast | The Ultimate Guide to Running
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🗓️ 9 October 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Michelle Barton, Ultra Runner and Co-Host of the Training For Ultra and Trail Runner Nation podcasts, joins us this week to talk about her experience and accomplishments with Ultra Trail Running.
Michelle has run some incredible races including Badwater 135, from Death Valley to Mt. Whitney; the Javelina Jundred, a 100 mile self proclaimed desert trail run costume party; and Caballo Blanco joining the Tarahumara Indians in Mexico. She has also set over 24 course records.
Michelle's running appears in a chapter she wrote in Chicken Soup for the Soul, about her experience running Badwater 135 and the extreme challenges she dealt with to finish the race.
In this episode, we talk to Michelle about how her love of the outdoors led to her running and how her running has taken on bigger and longer challenges over the years. And she also has words of encouragement for those who would like to dip their toes into the waters of Ultra Running.
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| 0:00.0 | On today's Run to the Top Podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | I know that my best racing is like at the 50K, 50 mile, |
| 0:10.0 | maybe 100K, but since I've sort of done so many of those like I kind of like to do the things I'm not great at because it's more of a challenge like even though I've won a hundred mile or I don't think I'm good at them. |
| 0:24.0 | Welcome to the Run to the Top Podcast from Runners Connect, |
| 0:29.0 | where it's all about learning from the best and most inspiring minds in the sport. |
| 0:35.0 | Together, we can train a smarter, healthier, and faster running community. |
| 0:41.0 | Now here's your host, Stephanie Kay Atwood. |
| 0:45.0 | Welcome, this is Stephanie K Atwood, Boston Marathon Qualifier Coach and host for the Wren to the |
| 0:52.3 | top podcast. |
| 0:54.0 | Michelle Barton has run some totally gnarly races including Badwater 135 |
| 1:00.0 | from Death Valley to Mount Whitney, |
| 1:02.0 | the Havolina 100, a hundred-mile self-proclaimed desert trail run costume party, |
| 1:08.0 | Cabayo Blanco, joining the Taru-Umarra Indians in Mexico, |
| 1:12.0 | and she has also set over 24 course records. |
| 1:15.9 | I was introduced to Michelle's running through a chapter she wrote in |
| 1:19.2 | Chicken Soup for the Soul about her experience running Bad Water 135 and the extreme challenges she dealt with to finish the race. |
| 1:27.0 | But she did finish the race. |
| 1:29.0 | We talked to Michelle about how her love of the outdoors led to her running and how her running has |
| 1:34.6 | taken on bigger and longer challenges over the years. Welcome Michelle Barton. |
| 1:39.2 | Thank you so much for having me. It's an honor Stephanie. So great to be here today. |
| 1:45.0 | Well, thank you. And as you know when we were talking before we started this interview, |
| 1:50.0 | we're both Mexico officionado. So I definitely want to talk to you more about Mexico. |
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