How to Survive 135 Miles: The World’s Most Impossible Run (Re-Spin)

The Badwater ultramarathon is known as the world’s most impossible run. From grueling mountain climbs to scorching, 100+ degree temperatures in the middle of Death Valley, it’s a 135 mile race that only a select group of individuals have ever finished. Enter Kelaine Conochan, who pushed her mind, body, and soul to its limit, in pursuit of completing the race in July of 2021. She wrote about her Badwater experience for ESPN.com, and shares what she lost – and found – in her 37 hours of running, chafing, chugging flat Coca-Cola, and flat out surviving.