Pregnant Ultramarathon Runner
Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People
Chris Gethard
4.8 • 9.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2026
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
An ultramarathon runner who's 37 weeks pregnant calls to talk with Gethard about trail running, support crews, and how some ultra runners are in it for the hallucinations. Also in this episode, making a living as an artist, a cameo from our caller's over-caffeinated husband, and how they're preparing for a very different kind of endurance challenge.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello to everybody who's run longer distances than I will ever care to run. |
| 0:09.0 | It's beautiful anonymous one hour. |
| 0:11.2 | One phone call. |
| 0:12.4 | No names. |
| 0:13.5 | No holds barred. |
| 0:17.0 | I'd rather go one-on-one. |
| 0:19.6 | I think it'll be more fun |
| 0:21.7 | and I'll get to know you |
| 0:24.3 | and you'll get to know me |
| 0:27.1 | Hi everybody |
| 0:28.3 | The intro is pretty quick today |
| 0:29.5 | If you're not into the intros |
| 0:30.7 | You only got to skip about two minutes ahead |
| 0:32.5 | That should put you right towards the beginning of call |
| 0:34.3 | You're going to towards the beginning of a call. |
| 0:43.5 | Hi everybody. Chris Getherd here. |
| 0:48.4 | Welcome to another episode of Beautiful Anonymous, the show where we look at the human condition, one anonymous phone call at a time. |
| 0:51.0 | That's the thing that I say sometimes. |
| 0:53.2 | Hi. |
| 0:54.0 | It's so nice to talk to you. Thank you all so much |
| 0:56.6 | for tuning in. I'm going to keep this one quick because you can hear I'm coming down with a little |
| 1:01.1 | bit of a cold. I do need to say from the bottom of my heart, though, thank you to everybody who |
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