Jennifer Shultis and Richard Benoit - Long Run 170 - The Western States DNOF

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5 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2022

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Join Scotty, Jennifer Shultis and Richard Benoit. Jennifer finished the 2022 Western States 100 a little more than two minutes after the cutoff. Hear the story of how she overcame a uncurable cancer disanosis and let it fly to get back running and meet her husband, pacer and competition in all things ultra. A really cool story of a moment that captures all of your hearts.

Watch her finish: starting around 9 hours (near the end): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0ijs7x1c8U

Scotty's article on States: https://scottkummer.substack.com/p/western-states-100-coverage-and-social

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0:00.0	All right, this is going to be a long run, episode of me in Jennifer Schultz, I think I'm
0:08.1	pronouncing that right.
0:09.6	Jennifer was recommended by the nation overwhelmingly following the Western Taste 100, which was this
0:13.2	weekend, as you all know.
0:15.4	I watched a bunch of it.
0:17.4	I thought it was awesome.
0:20.1	Some of our people, you know, and that is Zepetta, Jeff Lennard, Barry Theron, Camille,
0:26.0	Ellie Pell, Arlen Glick, you know, people that are friends of the show, I'm probably missing
0:31.8	people.
0:32.8	I'm really sorry about that.
0:33.8	There's tons of other ones, but those are just ones that came to mind.
0:36.5	Anyway, it was great.
0:38.0	I watched the coverage.
0:39.0	It was great.
0:40.0	I had a great time.
0:41.0	I watched about eight hours of it.
0:43.3	And you know, the only note that I had, and I did a little, I wrote a little piece of
0:48.1	it.
0:49.1	I'll put a link to it in the show notes, was that I wish there was more of the back in
0:53.0	the middle.
0:54.0	But there was more of it earlier, not later.
0:55.9	I wish that we could see people struggling to make the cutoffs at the early age stations
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