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"The World's Toughest Foot Race" with Jimmy Dean Freeman

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Fitness, Sports, Running, Health & Fitness

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2016

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Coach Jimmy Dean Freeman, founder and coach of the SoCal Coyotes running group, joins The Nation to do a preview of the 2016 running of the Badwater 135 mile race.  JDF talks through the history of this race that routes from the lowest elevation to the highest elevation in the contiguous U.S.  This will be Jimmy's second running of the grueling run.  He teaches us about his training plan and his crew and pacer strategies.  

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Follow the race HERE

Check out JDF's podcast, "Do Inspiring Sh*t"

 

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's got my most favorite absolute best ever shoe is the ultra superior 2.0 they're made

0:13.3

for the trail unless I'm on the road that I wear my what are these these are the ones

0:17.8

and I just love the ultra shoe you know Don I'm on my third pair of ultra shoes and

0:23.6

looking forward to receiving my fourth pair here in the mail soon I love these ultra shoes.

0:30.5

I keep my shoes around and who knows why and I've got a pair of old vask that I wore

0:35.2

that I wore on western states and my first one and so they're sentimental and I put them

0:39.7

on the other day and I think I'm really accustomed to this zero drop because I felt like

0:44.5

I was walking on in high heels I mean I could feel the difference I can't believe I ran

0:50.7

speaking of that I actually can feel the difference in the toe box where my toes don't

0:56.7

feel scrunched they just feel like when I'm running they can spread out and be like

1:03.3

webbed feet almost. Well you know like Dr. Cooke as all it says you know the feet have

1:09.3

to work and they need display and they need to be able to push and they need to be able

1:12.9

to move just like they do if the shoes aren't on and the ultra toe box and the zero drop

1:18.2

it really lets you do it and so we encourage other people to do what we've done and discover

1:23.1

the difference with the ultra. See if you love them as much as we do. So simply go over

1:28.3

to ultra running dot com a l t r a running dot com Jimmy Dean Freeman is running 135 miles

1:36.3

in most extreme conditions you could even dream of. You need hydration you need electrolytes

1:43.0

you need all of that and the only thing that I would be making sure I had in my crew van

1:50.4

was gallons of tailwind. I would have gallons I'd have gallons of tailwind and I would

1:55.4

have pounds and pounds of ice. Yeah you know tailwind gives you the electrolytes you

2:02.6

need it gives you the the calories that you need in the right formula and more important

2:09.2

anything it has that savory taste it's not too too sweet you don't get that palate discomfort

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