Fascinating tales from the Badwater Ultramarathon, which takes place in the California desert:

And then, you know, there's people that are saying, oh, you can't run 135 miles in the desert in Death Valley in July, over two mountain ranges, finishing at the highest point in the continental US. And you think to yourself, well, there's people that can do that. I can maybe do that. And then, well, let's see if I can do that.

So for me, it's all about trying to explore that and then to be able to do it, you know, working with a full time job and then having a couple of small kids in the house and, you know, trying to manage all that at the same time as competing on this elite level is something that I find really, unbelievably exciting and something I enjoy doing.