Episode 471: Courtney Dauwalter – 2023 Western States Champion Breaking the Course Record by 78 Minutes
I'll Have Another with Lindsey Hein Podcast
SandyBoy Productions
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Courtney Dauwalter is on the podcast today for the third time! She is just coming off of winning Western States and crushed the course record by 78 minutes! This is her second win at Western States. She has also won the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc in 2019 and 2021, which is seen as the most competitive ultramarathon in the world.
Courtney is gearing up to run the Hardrock 100 just 3 weeks after her Western States race.
Courtney is such a fun interview and I loved catching up with her! She loves running and has so much fun with it and I love what she shares about that in this episode!
What we talked about:
4:30- Recap coming off of Western States win and course record
5:45- What’s new with Courtney
7:35- Evolving her training without a coach
10:55- Courtney’s training
24:00- Recapping Western States
34:00- Preparing mentally for races
39:15- Developing into the runner that she is today
47:40- What her failures have taught her
51:00- Her finish at Western States
53:05- What Courtney is up to outside of running
59:05- End of podcast questions
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Sandy Boy Productions podcast. |
| 0:19.0 | Hey everybody, welcome to All Have Another. |
| 0:21.6 | Podcast with Lindsay Heine. I'm your host Lindsay. |
| 0:24.6 | Thanks so much for being here today. |
| 0:27.5 | I am so excited. Courtney DeWalter is on the podcast today. |
| 0:32.0 | This is her third or maybe fourth. I think third time on the show. |
| 0:37.2 | And she's amazing. I was like, should I bug her? I bet she's got a lot of media |
| 0:43.5 | because after her, because she just crushed Western states and crushed the |
| 0:50.5 | course record by 80 minutes. But Courtney is the real deal and she is so down to |
| 0:56.9 | earth and chill and she was like, yeah, sure. I'll come on in your podcast. |
| 1:01.2 | Courtney is, she's not going to like that I say this, but she's the goat of ultra running. |
| 1:05.5 | I mean, she really is. This is her second win at Western states. |
| 1:09.0 | She's the ultra trail duumap blanc champion from 2019. |
| 1:13.4 | She, I think, kind of made a name for herself in 2017 when she won the Moab 240 outright, |
| 1:22.1 | which is a race that is 240 miles, two days, nine hours and 59 minutes. She did that. |
| 1:29.1 | She's also won Bigs backyard ultra and she's just breaking course records left and right. |
| 1:35.1 | She is actually, this is one of the coolest things right now in her life. |
| 1:39.6 | So, off of her Western states win and course record breaking, which that was Ellie Greenwood's |
| 1:45.4 | record from 2012. And if you know Courtney, she will always give a nod to the people who came |
| 1:51.5 | before who, her, who broke records. And she wants to continue seeing records broken. |
| 1:56.7 | She's about to also do though the hard rock 100. There's a three week break in between |
| 2:02.0 | Western states and hard rock. And so we talk about what that's going to look like for her, |
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