EPISODE · Aug 12, 2026 · 39 MIN
No Limit - Lindsay Phenix (Part I)
from Hiker Trash Radio · host Bleav + Doc
About the Guest Lindsay Phenix is an elite ultra-marathoner, two-time Badwater 135 finisher, run coach, and podcast co-host based in Los Angeles, California. She has completed approximately 145 marathons and ultramarathons combined — including a serious stack of 100-mile finishes — and is a featured athlete in the Amazon Prime documentary on the Badwater 135 ultra. She also appeared on The Wheel on Discovery Channel, a survival show filmed in South America. She coaches remotely through Ornery Mule Racing and co-hosts The Dirt Trail Running Podcast. What's Covered in Part 1 Trailblazer's Toolkit — Burt's Bees Peppermint Lip Balm The Hiking Poll — Score: 41 Training for 100-Milers Badwater 135 — Last Wave Logistics The Amazon Prime Documentary Origin Story — Houston, the Lake, the Refrigerator Links & Resources Lindsay Phenix — Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lindseyphenix Lindsay Phenix — Substack: https://www.substack.com Ornery Mule Racing (coaching): https://www.ornerymule.com The Dirt Trail Running Podcast: https://www.thedirtpodcast.com Challenged Athletes Foundation: https://www.challengedathletes.org Badwater 135: https://www.badwater.com Ultramarathon Man — Dean Karnazes. The book that first planted Badwater in Lindsay's mind at age 14. Meru — Documentary on the first ascent of the Meru Shark's Fin in the Himalayas. Lindsay's media recommendation. Connect with Hiker Trash Radio Email: mailto:[email protected] Social: Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok — search Hiker Trash Radio. Part 2 drops in 10 minutes. Leave a review on Apple Podcasts — it takes 60 seconds and makes a real difference. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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Lindsay Phenix is an elite ultra-marathoner who has run roughly 145 marathons and ultramarathons and is currently training to win the Badger 100 in Wisconsin this weekend — a race she won last year and would like to win again, although her A goal is a personal best regardless of the outcome, which is exactly the kind of self-aware competitive honesty that explains how you run that many races without breaking. In Part 1, she walks through the training and recovery science behind stacking 100-mile finishes (lower weekly volume than you'd expect, upper body strength as the underrated key), the specific carnage of running the last wave at Badwater 135 where everyone is puking while running eight-minute miles at 115 degrees because there is a cutoff to make, what it looked like on camera in the Amazon Prime documentary when everything went wrong in her first Badwater attempt, and the origin story of how a girl in suburban Houston and her dad ran 10 loops around a lake at nine o'clock at night and lay on the pavement afterwards certain they had just done something nobody had ever done before. Hiking Poll score: 41. Part 2 drops in 10 minutes.
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