Unconventional Ultra Running with Katie Arnold

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🗓️ 9 August 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Katie Arnold is a writer and journalist who took the ultrarunning community by surprise in 2018 when she won one of the toughest ultramarathons in the country, the Leadville 100. Her training was “unconventional," but it totally worked.

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0:00.0	Early on, running was always just a way to move my mind.
0:09.6	You know, it was not about competition, it was not about racing, although I did race
0:14.5	with success.
0:15.5	But I think that's where my story is so different from other pro runners.
0:20.2	Like I didn't want to have this idea that I was trying to win Leadville.
0:23.9	Like I never went into it thinking that.
0:26.4	I wanted to run for the feeling I felt in the mountains, not for a goal.
0:33.1	In 2018, writer and journalist Katie Arnold took the Ultra Running community by surprise
0:41.2	when she won the Leadville 100.
0:43.9	If you haven't heard of Leadville, it's one of the toughest ultra marathon races in the
0:47.4	world.
0:48.4	The 100-mile race takes place annually in Colorado, it spans rugged mountain terrain
0:53.4	and dirt trails at elevations over 10,000 feet.
0:58.2	Participants have 30 hours to run the race, and many don't even cross the finish line
1:02.6	in time.
1:03.6	But at 46 years old, Katie Arnold completed the course with the 7th fastest woman's
1:09.1	time in race history.
1:11.4	I'm Shelby Stanger and this is wild ideas worth living.
1:18.2	Unlike most professional athletes, Katie Arnold didn't compete as a runner in high school
1:22.5	or even in college.
1:24.2	She grew up running on her own because she realized that moving her body outside helped
1:28.7	her creatively and mentally.
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