Western States Women

I remember the exact moment I heard footsteps behind me, the shuffling of feet and the “swish, swish” sound of knee-length shorts rhythmically moving at the cadence of someone still running, 50 miles deep into a 100-miler, on an incline out of the deepest canyon.

Before the start of the 2018 Western States Endurance Run in Olympic Valley, I was at a media meeting and asked