How to Survive the World’s Most Impossible Run

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🗓️ 30 November 2021

⏱️ 41 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 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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0:13.4	In ultramarathons, it's crazy. I don't go into it with anything in my mind of like, this is what's going to get me through.
0:19.8	But these mantras just find you. They just do. And this one, in this case, was find it. That's Kalain
0:27.3	Conahan, telling me what it's like to run 135 miles across the desert and how she found a way
0:34.8	to keep going. It was the first section where I really felt groggy.
0:39.5	So it was overnight.
0:40.8	It was kind of early in the race.
0:42.0	I was like 22 miles in and, you know, five hours in.
0:45.3	I should have still been feeling fresh, but it just hit me like a wave, right?
0:49.7	I was just so tired all of a sudden.
0:51.9	And the words just came to me, find it.
0:54.8	And I didn't know exactly what it meant.
0:59.7	I mean, yeah.
1:01.9	I don't know what happened.
1:04.8	Like 155.
1:08.0	I've run 28, 29 miles. And for a while, I was crazy, like, it was so grotty.
1:18.5	And something just happened and I feel great again. But I knew that it was just whatever,
1:24.5	whatever you need, whatever you need to find in this moment. And this is such a reminder early in this race that when I'm feeling horrible,
1:33.7	there's a second life on the other side that just happens.
1:38.4	Like you really, really just have to keep putting one foot in front of the other.
1:43.6	You just have to keep pushing because foot in front of the other. You just have to keep pushing
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