EPISODE · Aug 8, 2026 · 19 MIN
Trail Stories - No Limit with Lindsay Phenix
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. Episode Highlights The Origin Story — Ten Loops Around the Lake Ultramarathon Man — The Seed Training for 100-Milers Badwater 135 — Puke and Rally The Keys 100 — The Worst One Racing for the Podium vs. Racing to Finish No Limit Links & Resources Lindsay Phenix — Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lindsayphenix 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. The full interview with Lindsay drops Wednesday in two parts. 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 has run roughly 145 marathons and ultramarathons and is not done. She first heard about the Badwater 135 — 135 miles through Death Valley in July, from below sea level to the Whitney Portal — when her dad gave her a copy of Ultramarathon Man at age 14 and she thought it sounded like something people from another planet did. She has since run it twice, shaved five hours off her time between attempts, was featured in an Amazon Prime documentary about it, and her answer to whether she's found her limit yet is simply: no. This episode traces that arc from a 14-year-old running loops around a lake in suburban Houston with her dad at nine o'clock at night — both of them certain nobody had ever run 10 miles before — through a Keys 100 that came apart from mile seven and required her dad to cut the tops off her shoes at mile 60 while she called every friend she had looking for permission to quit, to Death Valley in July where the thermometer on the ground read 200 degrees and everyone in the last wave is running an eight-minute pace and throwing up simultaneously and there is simply no other option but to keep going. The full interview with Lindsay drops Wednesday in two parts on the Hiker Trash Radio feed.
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