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Ten Junk Miles

Badwater 135 Special - 4 Perspectives - 2025

Ten Junk Miles

Ten Junk Miles

Hiking, Ultramarathon, Ultrarunning, Mountaineering, Crosscountry, Running, Marathon, Sports, Track, Improv, Comedy, Trailrunning

51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2025

⏱️ 219 minutes

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Summary

Join Scott W. Kummer, guest host Jada Freer and 4 participants from the 2025 Badwater 135, Shae Merritt Barry Thrune, Mindy Gail Hyatt and Jeff Bigrue. Learn about their preparations, travel, suprises, expectations, lessons learned and more! a really nice primer for all things Badwater from everyday people who had different stories and experiences.
 
 
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0:00.0

Bad water, bad water, bad water, bad water.

0:03.1

Yep, that's what we're going to do.

0:04.9

I wanted to do an episode, kind of like the comrades episode.

0:07.5

I got a lot of emails about that, that they really enjoyed that episode in that format.

0:11.7

I promise not to do 100 more of those, but just for these kind of like different races, like

0:16.9

Bad Water and Comrades, I think they're really good to do.

0:57.1

This is going to be five people that did the Badwater. Crew member, two finishers, two non-finishers, but perspectives from four different people. You know, like, well, how much did it cost? What did they do? How did they get their crew? What were the logistics? What did they have to change? What did they would have done differently? All that kind of stuff. And the stories of their races, I don't even think we did a good job and we did over three hours. But if you're interested in Badwater, I think this is a nice thing to listen to to get a bunch of stuff to think about. and these are all really good tendrunk miles-ish people that are involved in the community.

0:58.6

A lot of them will beat the badge of this weekend.

1:00.2

So I think you're really going to like it.

1:00.8

Let me know.

1:04.2

Shoot me an email if you, you know, have comments about it.

1:08.2

This episode is brought to you by our friends at you can.

1:17.1

You know, they make low glycemic uh carb products drinks uh non no calorie electrolyte drink that we're going to be serving up everywhere at the um badger they also make

1:22.4

these bars nutrition bars that are really good and they also make uhders, protein powders and things like that. This is all really good stuff if you have problems with balking, if you have stomach issues. A lot of people have come to me and said that this has helped their stomach issues. And if you want to learn about them, you can either do the badger races and try them because they'll be on the course, or you can go to you can.com. I'll put a link in the show notes and do a purchase. There's

1:49.4

all kinds of packages you can get that are bundles and starting packages that have all the different

1:55.3

products that'll have some of the edge gel, some of the protein powder, some of the hydrate.

2:06.9

I recommend that and I recommend using it actually in training, because that's definitely when it's going to come into play. And then if you're at the Badger, you will see some of these edge gels and some of these bars at the aid stations.

2:14.4

A few of them have them, because they just sent me, seriously, like two seconds

2:18.3

ago, maybe a 150 pound box of stuff that I'm going to have to distribute throughout

2:23.7

the badger course. So go to you can.com, use the code 10 chuck miles, all caps, for 20%

2:29.9

off your order and let them know that you heard about them through us really good stuff

2:35.2

also and they're not doing ads anymore but I'm just going to shout them up because this is

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