Since today's Tuesdays on the Run is a free topic and there's not a lot going on in my world right now, I asked my friend Chavet to write up a post about her experience at Badwater 135.  Badwater 135 is 135 mile race from Death Valley to Mt Whitney, CA. It is known as the "world's toughest road race." I met Chavet a few years ago at one of the Mainly Marathons series that I did.  I knew that since then Chavet had become an amazing ultra runner, but I did not know she was aiming for Badwater. She went  from hearing about the race 5 years ago to picking challenging ultra marathons to prove she was capable of finishing to actually getting chosen to run the race this year. This is a shorter version to wet your appetite, but if you'd like to … [Read more...]