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| Foreword | |
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| Welcome to Death Valley | |
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| Table of Contents | |
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| Hell on Earth | |
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| Introduction - Badwater | |
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| Badwater Ultramarathon Checkpoints | |
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| Pam Reed | |
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| Some Like it Hot By Scott Ludwig | |
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| Dean Karnazes | |
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| Too Little Too Late By Scott Ludwig | |
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| Monica Scholz | |
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| Night Fever By Scott Ludwig | |
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| Chris Bergland | |
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| Rookie Mistakes By Chris Bergland with Scott Ludwig | |
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| Scott Ludwig | |
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| Just Crew It By Scott Ludwig | |
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| Al Barker | |
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| Gary Griffin | |
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| Paula May | |
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| Eric Huguelet | |
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| Josh Ludwig | |
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| The Crew | |
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| The Runner | |
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| Al | |
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| Gary | |
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| Paula | |
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| Eric | |
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| Josh | |
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| The Finish | |
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| Luis Escobar | |
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| An Extreme Adventure By Luis Escobar | |
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| Louise Cooper | |
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| The Fight of My Life By Louise Cooper | |
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| Bill Lockton | |
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| Fun Run By Bill Lockton | |
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| Here's my race report: | |
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| The Numbers: | |
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| Final Thought: | |
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| Joe Desena | |
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| Taking It Slow By Joe Desena | |
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| Badwater | |
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| Roger Klein | |
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| One Road, One Goal By Roger Klein | |
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| Friday, July 18, 2003 | |
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| Saturday, July 19, 2003 | |
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| Sunday, July 20, 2003 | |
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| Monday, July 21, 2003 | |
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| Tuesday, July 22, 2003 | |
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| Wednesday, July 23, 2003 | |
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| Jane Ballantyne | |
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| A Lot of Help from my Friends By Jane Ballantyne | |
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| My Story: | |
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| Marshall Ulrich | |
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| The Desert Fox By Scott Ludwig | |
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| Ruben Cantu | |
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| A Runner's High By Ruben Cantu | |
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| The Race | |
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| Too Hot, I Quit | |
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| Mike and Jeanne | |
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| Lone Pine | |
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| Home At Last, Home At Last | |
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| Double Next Time | |
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| Bonnie Busch | |
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| Team Effort By Bonnie Busch | |
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| Death Valley, July 2002 | |
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| My Turn: One More Try | |
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| Training Camp | |
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| Preparation | |
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| Goal #1 | |
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| Race Day | |
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| At Last! | |
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| Goal #2 | |
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| Goal #3 | |
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| Reflecting | |
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| Team #45 | |
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| Mike Karch | |
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| A Lesson in Life By Mike Karch | |
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| Andy Velazco | |
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| A Friendship Forged in Hell By Andy Velazco | |
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| Believing You Can | |
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| Badwater 2002-Mike Smith | |
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| Badwater 2003-The Hot Year | |
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| Crew Run | |
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| Race Day | |
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| To Towne Pass | |
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| Father Crowley Pass | |
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| Lone Pine - The Whitney Portals | |
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| Lisa Smith-Batchen | |
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| Summer School By Scott Ludwig | |
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| Nancy Shura-Dervin | |
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| Rookie to Veteran… Ultraladies' Style "More Ultra… Less Lady" By Nancy Shura-Dervin | |
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| Rill Ladieu | |
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| Badwater, A Good Comfortable Road By Bill Ladieu | |
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| Joe Prusaitis | |
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| Sand Spirits and Scorpions By Joe Prusaitis | |
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| Mark Cockrain | |
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| Only Man Dogs and Englishmen By Mark Cockbain | |
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| Jan Levet | |
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| Fun in the Sun: Big Heat and Sore Feet By Jan Levet | |
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| 2003 | |
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| 2002 | |
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| Early 2003 | |
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| Pre-Race Night 2003 - Furnace Creek | |
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| Race Morning - Badwater | |
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| Furnace Creek | |
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| Stovepipe Wells | |
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| Townes Pass | |
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| Whitney Portal Road | |
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| Finish Line | |
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| Jim Bodoh | |
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| What Am I Doing Here? By Jim Bodoh | |
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| Chris Hendley | |
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| From Doing Everything Wrong and Finishing to Doing Everything Right and Everything Going Wrong and Not Finishing! By Chris Hendley | |
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| Ben Jones | |
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| It Was 135 at the Badwater 135 By Ben Jones | |
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| Now the Fun Starts | |
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| A View from the Crew | |
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| Go Ahead, Call Me Crazy to Volunteer To Help Someone Run Across Death Valley In July, But You Just Don't Know What You're Missing | |
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| Badwater - Prerace Preparations | |
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| Badwater-The Start | |
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| Furnace Creek | |
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| Stovepipe Wells | |
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| Townes Pass | |
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| Panamint Springs | |
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| Father Crowley Point, Darwin, Owens Flats | |
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| Portals Road | |
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| Finish | |
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| Appendix: 2003 Badwater Ultramarathon Results | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| The "Long, Comfortable Road" Never Ends | |
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| The Author | |
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| Credits | |
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| Further Reading | |