Elliott Beach is back for the first time since his HURT YS100M debut, and he and KJ walk us through crewing and pacing Jada at Badwater 135 — mandatory sauna training nobody enjoys, the Walmart aisle crawl, and the Dungeon Crawler Carl van theme complete with matching boxer shorts and a Princess Donut light. Strap in for an hour of how the crew hid problems from Jada and lamented losing their Powerade. Also: the portable flush toilet. Clutch.
Then Badger 100, notoriously the hottest race on earth, which was cold and pouring rain — Bob made seventy-odd grilled cheeses (with pickles in them, fight him), and Orangeville ran a full Waffle House theme with name tags, a slushy machine, a call-ahead menu board, and Elliott chasing runners down the trail with hash browns.
Finally Eastern States 100, where Rocksylvania earns the name: twenty-thousand-plus feet of climbing, a chest-deep creek crossing, a, rattlesnakes, blueberry pancakes you summon with an air horn and then can't eat, and a 54% DNF rate. Elliott dropped at Tomb Flats; KJ dry-heaved his way to a buckle and then got eaten alive by biting flies in the finish-line grass. Plus a wonderful but HURTful surprise for our runners during the race.
Corrections are now open at yousaid100miles.com/corrections; go tell us why we're wrong.
0:00:00 — Welcome: Fault Lines and a Very Oversold Guest
0:03:32 — Three Races, One Spoiler
0:06:29 — Badwater Prep: Lists, Logistics, and Mandatory Sauna Training
0:11:58 — Travel Day and the Red Pacifica
0:14:56 — Drop Your Bags and Walk Every Aisle of Walmart
0:16:54 — Dungeon Crawler Carl, Matching Boxers, and a Princess Donut Light
0:24:18 — A Screw in the Tire, and Keeping Jada in the Dark
0:32:02 — 120 Degrees at a Nighttime Start
0:35:10 — Crewing Every Two Miles for Thirty-Nine Hours
0:42:10 — What We'd Do Differently: Drawers
0:43:50 — A Seventy-Degree Swing into Lone Pine
0:45:53 — The Night the Crew Vanished, and the Angry Mashed Potatoes
0:52:00 — The Powerade Diva
0:53:34 — Losing Jada in Lone Pine (She Was Fixing a Toilet)
0:56:02 — Eight Seconds Under Thirty-Nine Hours
0:58:42 — Adopt-a-Highway: Signing Elliott Up Behind His Back
1:03:24 — The Portable Flush Toilet
1:05:04 — Badger 100: Cold, Rainy, and Seventy Grilled Cheeses
1:11:44 — Waffle House at Orangeville and the Call-Ahead Menu Board
1:17:35 — Badger's Real Draw: The Last Supper
1:19:07 — Eastern States 100: Welcome to Rocksylvania
1:24:01 — Elliott's DNF at Tomb Flats
1:27:30 — Pine Creek and a Full Blister Wrap
1:32:04 — Dry Heaving from Aid Station to Aid Station
1:37:24 — Rattlesnakes That Sound Like Bugs
1:41:19 — Skytop, the Air Horn, and Pancakes He Couldn't Eat
1:43:38 — The Rattlesnake Den, Three Quarters of a Mile Out
1:47:22 — Jogging It In, and the Biting Flies
1:53:25 — The HURT 100 Lottery Trap
1:59:34 — Eastern States by the Numbers: A 54% DNF Rate
2:03:34 — Corrections, Discord, and Past My Bedtime
