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Welcome to episode 313 of the Women’s Running podcast. I’m your host Esther Newman and she’s your other host Holly Taylor. On this podcast we talk about health, politics, stuff on TV and what we ate last night. Occasionally, we talk about running.
We start with a little bit of pooing on the run content, before we launch into our BIG NEWS. Shan’t let the cat out of the bag in the show notes, as that’s no fun at all, but suffice to say we don’t have much time to train for something rather large looming in October. We talk through our rubbish plans right here. Small technical difficulties aside, we move on to huge feats of endurance over in the US, namely Badwater 135, the details of it, the myths and scandals around it, and whether or not we would ever consider doing it ourselves (um, NOPE).
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"Ep 313. Big news, Badwater 135" is an episode of The Women's Running Podcast. Runtime 1 hr 7 min. Published August 7, 2026. Hit play above to stream it here, or open the free Spot Sports app for background play and offline downloads.