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With Pace

Hillary Allen, ultrarunner and endurance athlete

With Pace

Payson McElveen

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4.9727 Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2022

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Hillary Allen was one of the top-ranking trail runners in the world in 2017 when a 150-foot fall off a mountain in Norway during a race nearly ended her life. She broke 14 bones, including both feet, both arms, her back, and five ribs. Despite being told she would never compete again, she slowly eased back into running and eventually went back to conquer the race that nearly took her life. These days, she’s racing at an even higher level than she was before her accident, and just won her firs...

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0:00.0

It actually took me a couple days. I mean, it was like the combination of morphine and just being in so much pain that it took me like two and a half days to actually realize that like I was in the hospital that this had happened. I mean, in total, I fell 150 feet, like hit the mountain several times, was airlifted out of there. I broke 14 bones, like including my back, both feet. I was told

0:23.5

later that you could fit your hand inside of my quad on both sides because they were cut so

0:30.3

deeply. It's showtime, everybody. Showtime! You've been living in a dream world, Neo.

0:39.7

This is the world as it exists today.

0:44.6

Life moves pretty fast.

0:47.0

You don't stop and look around once in a while.

0:49.3

You could miss it.

0:52.6

Listen, we're talk about practice.

0:55.8

Repeat on the dude's room.

0:57.4

Donnie, you're out of your element.

0:59.7

I see, you think this has nothing to do with you.

1:03.6

Don't ever trash talk black Jesus.

1:08.4

This is the Adventure Stash with Payson McElvin.

1:13.0

Hello everyone and welcome back to the show.

1:15.1

Happy holidays.

1:16.3

If you're someone that celebrates holidays this time of year, I hope you're able to do so

1:21.2

with some folks that you care about, carve out some time for that.

1:25.4

I'm down in Austin, Texas right now, spending some quality time with my

1:29.4

family. The older I get, the more I realize how fortunate I am to have that time and how much

1:37.1

I want to prioritize it, how important it really is. I've been meaning to record, or I should say we've been trying to record with Hillary for four years,

1:49.2

because in the first year of this podcast, I think is when Lily came to me and said,

1:54.0

this is a really interesting person, and she has an incredible story, and she's crushing it,

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