Kirk Johnson was a reporter for the New York Times when he met Lisa Smith to do a story about her training for Badwater.
He would end up taking a year off from his job and training to run the race in 1999, the year the documentary Running on the Sun.
He would finish the race and write a book about the experience To the Edge: A Man, Death Valley, and the Mystery of Endurance.
In it he talks about the van his crew packed to the ceiling with every imaginable food stuff for his race.
It is a good read on how to truly be prepared for every possibility at the race--or maybe not.
The story about the Vaseline jar lid struck me as especially funny. (You'll have to read to find out what I mean).
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Lisa Smith-Batchen (she got married since Kirk's book was published) is a great Badwater coach. And she does the race every year herself, too = someone who def. practices what she preaches!
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