Eastern States (is) Special
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. Chapters 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