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Dispatches: Getting Past Our Fear of Great White Sharks

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Outside Podcast

Sports, Wilderness

4.42.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Recent months have seen a media frenzy around the return of great white sharks to the waters surrounding Cape Cod. And with good reason: over the summer, great whites were routinely spotted off the iconic vacation destination’s most popular beaches. In 2018, a Cape boogie boarder died after being bitten by a shark—the first fatal attack in Massachusetts since 1936. But behind the headlines about freaked-out tourists and angry locals, the real story on the Cape is about how we learn to live with fear—or, just maybe, get past it. Produced in collaboration with our friends at the Outside/In podcast, this episode investigates the extreme reactions we have to living alongside one of the world’s most terrifying predators.

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0:00.0

This episode of the Outside Podcast is brought to you by Honeystinger, making fuel for athletes of all kinds, using delicious honey and organic ingredients.

0:08.0

One of those athletes is extremely laid-back ultra-runner, Courtney DeWaltor.

0:13.1

So every day I wake up and basically I just decide

0:17.6

where I'm gonna go, how far I'm going to go,

0:20.2

and then I let my legs and body and brain decide how big the day is going to be.

0:27.0

If you don't know Courtney by name, maybe you know this theory she inspired.

0:31.0

But in super-long-distance races running becomes

0:35.2

entirely mental. And once it gets to that point, women have an advantage. The idea

0:41.5

came up when Courtney started winning a bunch of races and now people want to know what's your secret?

0:47.0

And I also I read that you run with a toothbrush.

0:51.0

Just those little disposable ones.

0:54.6

You know, some of the races I do are over 200 miles and it takes me multiple days and you're just,

1:01.2

you are taking in a lot of things like quesadillas and pizza and stuff and so a little

1:08.2

scrub of your teeth can feel really good going into day two, like to remind yourself that you're still a human, I think.

1:19.0

In addition to being incredibly laid back for a world-class athlete,

1:22.7

Courtney is a member of Honeystinger's Hive,

1:25.1

an inclusive community of all kinds of athletes

1:27.6

that's all about learning and helping each other

1:29.4

reach personal goals.

1:30.9

Yeah, so I applied for the hive because I use Honeystinger products.

1:35.9

I specifically like the waffles and the shoes.

1:40.1

And because I was already using them, I applied to be a part of the Hive,

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