All right, this is going to be a long run episode of me and Karen Malcolm.

I don't know Karen, I know of her, I've seen her on, you know, the Western States coverage

and listen to the Trail Society podcast and her other podcast, now she's on this ultra

running magazine or ultra sign up, I think it is podcast and I've always been interested

in her and wanted to know more about her.

Who is this Karen Malcolm and we're going to find out today.

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I'm recording this day after the last hot standing if I seem like I'm off my game a

little bit.

I'm really tired but I'm getting ready to open up registration for next year so sign

up.

It's not fun, it's like 79 degrees, you know, you want to do it was the so now so you're

you're so from kid till high school, you're in Hayward, Wisconsin, they're there, they're

both in the medical profession, are they practicing in Hayward itself?

Yeah, both my parents practiced in Hayward, my dad's little practices in Hayward, he practices

at the Indian reservation clinic and my stepmom works out there as well in addiction medicine

and then my mom now lives in Minneapolis and practices as an emergency medicine physician

in a smaller Minnesota town.

How did you avoid becoming a doctor?

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