Camille Herron | Running Fearlessly
The Freetrail Podcast with Dylan Bowman
Dylan Bowman
5 • 773 Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2022
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Camille Herron is an ultrarunner living in Arizona. Camille has been one of the best athletes of our generation, winning the legendary Comrades Marathon and setting multiple world records. This fall, Camille won and set the course record at the Javelina 100 and broke her own record for the track 100 miler at Desert Solstice, solidifying a 2nd place in the Ultrarunner of the Year voting. In this conversation, we talk about Camille entering her 40s, dealing with health issues early in 2021, and rebounding with an amazing second half of the year.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, fam, what is of? Welcome back to the free trail podcast. Of course, I am your loving host, Dylan Bowman. |
| 0:23.8 | And today we are back with one of the great champions of our sport, one of the great athletes of |
| 0:30.3 | our generation. Camille Heron is here for her first appearance and a really fun conversation |
| 0:37.2 | on the program. |
| 0:39.0 | Camille will need no introduction to most of you. |
| 0:42.0 | Coincidentally, she just yesterday was named the runner up for the Ultra Runner of the Year awards. |
| 0:47.6 | She's a comrades champion, a multi-time world champion and world record holder, |
| 0:54.0 | and generally an icon of this era of ultra running. |
| 0:58.7 | In this conversation, we talk all about Camille's career. We talk about aging as she enters her |
| 1:05.2 | 40s, still very much feeling like she is in her prime and backing it up on the race course. We talk about her 27-hour |
| 1:13.8 | vision quest at Western States and what she learned from that and how she plans to change |
| 1:20.5 | her approach to get more comfortable on the Western States course after she earned her golden |
| 1:25.9 | ticket back for 2022. We talk about some health |
| 1:29.9 | problems that she dealt with earlier in the year and how she overcame those to finish 2021 |
| 1:35.4 | with incredible performances at both the Havillina 100 and at Desert Solstice. It was really |
| 1:43.0 | fun to chat with Camille. I hope you guys all enjoy |
| 1:46.0 | our conversation before we get to it. Quickly, a big thank you to Speedland, the coolest trail |
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| 2:12.1 | debut footwear product, the SLPDX, lots of amazing things in the pipeline with these guys. And we really |
| 2:20.2 | appreciate their support. Okay, here's a really fun combo between me and the great Camille Heron. |
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