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At age 54, Lisa Smith-Batchen is one of the most prolific and famous athletes in the world. In 2016, she will do the Trans Con Run across America with a goal of running 50 miles a day from Los Angeles, CA to New York City, NY. Smith-Batchen has numerous first place female wins, including being the...
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My name is Lisa Smith-Batchen, this is a story about me but ultimately it’s a story about God. I couldn’t do these things or even want to without Him. I am a 52-year old ultrarunner and elite endurance athlete. I am the adoptive mother of two little girls, Annie and Gabby, although in the...
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July 17, 2012 Today, Mike Morton did something he alluded to over the phone a few months ago (see article). He told me he planned to do well at the Badwater Ultramarathon. His friends, who I interviewed for the May/June issue of Endurance Racing Magazine, believed hed take the first place prize. He did not dissapoint....
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By Alix Shutello In four years, Ferg Hawke went from fat to fit to famous. Hes renown for his epic 2nd place finishes at Badwater, a record-breaking finish at the Marathon De Sables and has competed in hundreds of races including Western States and other international races. Now, after a few years off, he’s...
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Oh How Times Have Changed Lisa Smith-Batchen’s Introduction to Badwater and Beyond By Alix J. Shutello Back in 1995, Lisa Smith-Batchen (she was Lisa Smith at the time) already had an impressive competitor’s resume. She’d completed over 100 marathons, numerous Iron-distances races and even a few adventure races. In April of 1995, Lisa was invited...
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EDITOR’S LETTER Badwater. If you are unfamiliar with this 135-mile race through Death Valley, you won’t be by the time you are done with this issue. I had the extreme pleasure of working with some very big celebrities in the ultra running community to get this issue completed. Let’s see, I interviewed Frank McKinney...
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Jennifer Vogel has competed Badwater as both a pacer and as a competitor. When I met Jennifer at the Whole Foods in Jacksonville, FL I was pleas-antly surprised about her candor regarding eating well, doing yoga as an ultra athlete, and why being a triathlete makes her a better ultra runner which she attributes...
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Scott D’Angelo is a long time triathlete who “likes the impossibility of things,” and he’s taking that attitude right to the starting line of Badwater this year. D’Angelo is a five-time Ironman finisher who started running ultras in 2009. Since then he has completed over 15 ultras and has crewed for Jennifer Vogel, Lane...
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Badwater is hot. And I mean temperature hot, but it’s also what many athletes would describe as their nirvana. Endurance athlete David Goggins said in the film, The Distance of Truth, that his questions were answered after finishing Badwater. This year , 99 people from 16 countries, 2 Canadian provinces and 19 American states...
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Entrepreneur David Green, 48, competed in 16 Ironman races from 1999-2009. His first endurance race was the Rocky Raccoon 100-miler in February of 2010. Until then, Green had never run more than a marathon, but in his training for the Rocky Raccoon, he just kept upping his mileage and ran a 50-miler in preparation...
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