How to Survive 135 Miles: The World’s Most Impossible Run (Re-Spin)

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🗓️ 21 February 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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The Badwater ultramarathon is known as the world’s most impossible run. From grueling mountain climbs to scorching, 100+ degree temperatures in the middle of Death Valley, it’s a 135 mile race that only a select group of individuals have ever finished. Enter Kelaine Conochan, who pushed her mind, body, and soul to its limit, in pursuit of completing the race in July of 2021. She wrote about her Badwater experience for ESPN.com, and shares what she lost - and found - in her 37 hours of running, chafing, chugging flat Coca-Cola, and flat out surviving. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	ESPN Daily is presented by supercuts, the smarter, easier way to get a haircut.
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0:11.8	Hey guys, it's Pablo.
0:13.9	Not to go all a masterpiece theater on you here, but I did want to break the fourth
0:19.5	wall to tell you how much I enjoy this episode.
0:22.6	It is all about the Badwater Ultra Marathon, otherwise known as the most insane foot race on this planet.
0:31.7	It is 135 miles long. It goes through the desert, through the mountains, and it was completed by
0:38.4	our good friend, Colleen Conahan, who just so happened to take a microphone with her. So today,
0:45.6	we're taking you through the world's most impossible run all over again. It is one of our
0:50.1	favorites. So enjoy. It is Monday, February 21st. This is ESPN Daily.
1:02.5	In ultramarathons, it's crazy. I don't go into it with anything in my mind of like, this is what's
1:08.1	going to get me through. But these mantras just find you.
1:11.2	They just do.
1:12.1	And this one, in this case, was find it.
1:15.7	That's Kaleen-Kanahan, telling me what it's like to run 135 miles across the desert and how she
1:23.4	found a way to keep going.
1:25.4	It was the first section where I really felt groggy.
1:28.7	So it was overnight.
1:30.0	It was kind of early in the race.
1:31.2	I was like 22 miles in and, you know, five hours in.
1:34.5	I should have still been feeling fresh, but it just hit me like a wave, right?
1:38.8	I was just so tired all of a sudden.
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