Badwater Stories

This is an ongoing archive of Badwater stories, past, present, and future. If you have written something or would like to write something about any aspect of this event or its course, please send it our way for possible inclusion on this website. We are looking for articles about everything, especially first person “I was there” accounts of what it was like to race or crew on this course.

2010 First Person Accounts, Profiles, Features

Badwater Ultramarathon 2010 : ma course & notre épopée — an extremely well done video about the 2010 AdventureCORPS Badwater Ultramarathon with some of the best footage I have yet seen of the setting. It features the whole race, with a particular focus on Vincent Toumazou of France
Badwater Ultramarathon 2010 - FINISHED Business, a three-part race report by two-time Badwater finisher Iris Cooper Imhof.
"Lessons Learned at Badwater" by Amanda McIntosh: Hammer Nutrition athlete, coach, and crew person for 2010 finisher Doug Ratliff
Crewing for Reza Baluchi, report by Steve Matsuda, crew person for Reza Baluchi—Badwater Ultramarathon's first Iranian finisher
Structural Elements Joins Team Newton Running at Badwater, race report by one of the crew for Ian Adamson
RailRiders Adventure Clothing interviews 2010 Badwater finisher Ian Adamson
Badwater: Mission Accomplished, by first-time finisher Dave Walker
"The Power of Plan" - life lessons from my record breaking 2010 Badwater 135-mile Ultramarathon, race report by five-time finisher Frank McKinney
Runner No. 82, race report by 46 year-old British ultrarunner and 2010 Badwater finisher Mark Steven Woolley
David Corfman on the Badwater Ultramarathon, 2010 race report by finisher David Corfman as it appeared on the Cincinnati Enquirer website
Paul Grimm's Badwater race in photos
Badwater: Part One, two-part race report by finisher James Elson.
How Hot Is Death Valley?, two-part race report by James Plant, crew person for two-time finisher Hung-Kwong Ng
135 Amazing Miles, race report by two-time finisher Tony Portera
Live from Badwater and Badwater Was Awesome, blog reports by Deena Kastor, crew member for five-time finisher Shannon Farar-Griefer
2010 Badwater Ultramarathon Recap, in three parts by John Vigil—crew person for Susannah Harvey-Jamieson
Massive multi-part blog report about Gregg Geerdes' 2010 Badwater race. PART 1
Massive multi-part blog report about Gregg Geerdes' 2010 Badwater race. PART 2
Massive multi-part blog report about Gregg Geerdes' 2010 Badwater race. PART 3
Massive multi-part blog report about Gregg Geerdes' 2010 Badwater race. PART 4
Massive multi-part blog report about Gregg Geerdes' 2010 Badwater race. PART 5
Massive multi-part blog report about Gregg Geerdes' 2010 Badwater race. PART 6
Massive multi-part blog report about Gregg Geerdes' 2010 Badwater race. PART 7
Massive multi-part blog report about Gregg Geerdes' 2010 Badwater race. PART 8
Massive multi-part blog report about Gregg Geerdes' 2010 Badwater race. PART 9
Massive multi-part blog report about Gregg Geerdes' 2010 Badwater race. PART 10
Massive multi-part blog report about Gregg Geerdes' 2010 Badwater race. PART 11
Badwater race video by Philipp Corfman, son of rookie finisher David Corfman

2001 First Person Accounts and Profiles

Dead Run, a feature on Vilma Mejia by Michael Gougis, New Times L.A.
Badwater Poem by Eberhard Frixe of Germany
Brave One-Legged Briton Runs 135 Miles Across Desert in 130F Heat by Stewart Cook, London Daily Express (large file in jpg format with lots of photos)
One-Legged, One-Armed Runner Conquers Blistering Race through Death Valley by Stewart Cook, National Examiner USA (large file in jpg format with lots of photos)
Wenn Laufen Zur Nebensache Wird: Badwater Ultralauf 2001 von Dr. Holger Finkernagel PDF format: requires Adoba Acrobat. Thirteen pages and lots of photos (in German)
Meeting the Challenge at the 2001 Badwater Ultramarathon by Phil Hicks for the Tyler Morning Telegraph
Retun to Badwater 2001 by Ruben Cantu
Mr. Bo Peep Runs Badwater by Arthur Webb
My Time in the Desert by Jim Benike
He's Not Heavy, He's My Brother by Courtney Boova, crew for Marshall Ulrich
Industriekaufmann Eberhard Frixe aus Meine durchquerte Death Valley by Annika Koch about Eberhard Frixe
From Lowest to Highest in 2001 by Rick Nawrocki, Cancer Survivor
Crewin' for Rick Nawrocki, the "Cry Tuff!" Man by Al Parell
Badwater Quad for Starving Children by Marshall Ulrich with lots of photos by Tony DiZinno
Badwater 2001: My Account by Rick Miller
Steven Silver's Badwater 2001 by Blade Norman
Shannon Farar-Griefer's Badwater 2001 Double Story
Badwaterultra.com: Website of the Week by Tom Owen, Waterloo/Cedar Falls Courier, Waterloo, Iowa
USMC Major Wm Curt Maples Barfathon at Badwater
Matt Palocsay's Badwater 2001 Story