Interview with the Indomitable Jenn Shelton

In this episode we bring you an exclusive interview with ultra runner Jenn Shelton and in the quick tip segment Angie shares her summer reading list.

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Jenn Shelton is an American ultra marathoner and running nomad. She spends her winters ski mountaineering in the Italian Alps and her summers trail running on far-flung mountain ranges.

In 2007 she set the women’s U.S. 100-mile trail record at the Rocky Raccoon Ultramarathon. She has also won numerous trail and road races and has run a 2:45 marathon, which qualified her for the Olympic Marathon trials.

She is perhaps best known from Christopher McDougall’s best-selling book Born to Run in which she is one of the main characters. Get the book!

Interview with the Indomitable Jenn Shelton

photo credit: Jenn Shelton

Least I forget . . . there is a short film about Jenn called Outside Voices which follows her from place to place as she lives in her van, traverses spectacular trails and jumps naked into alpine lakes. The film doesn’t follow any sort of plot other than to give people a look into her bohemian life. In the last scene she is playing a game that involves sprinting, chugging beer and shooting a beer can off a fence.

photo credit: Jenn Shelton

photo credit: Jenn Shelton[

I’ve always been fascinated by people who live an adventurous life (at the moment we are on our own adventure in Alaska and Canada), so it was exciting to speak with Jenn. I’ve been following her on social media ever since reading Born to Run and it seems that she is always exploring some epic place.

The lighting is bad but here you go.

We happened to be in Juneau at the same time, we were there for the Juneau Marathon and Jenn was in town for Geoff Roe’s mountain running camp.

We met in the upstairs of a pizza restaurant at 9:00 pm, so you will hear some background noise in the interview. I hope you enjoy getting to know Jenn Shelton a little better. Follower her on Twitter and Instagram @sheltonjenn. She and a friend are working on a coloring book for runners. If you are interested in supporting the project (not sure if they are doing a kickstarter campaign or what) you can direct message her on Instagram.

Also Mentioned in This Episode . . .
Angie’s Summer Reading List

Daring Greatly, Rising Strong & Braving the Wilderness by Brene Brown
Capture -Unravel the Mystery of Mental Suffering by David Kessler
The Places that Scare You -A Guide to Fearlessness by Pema Chodron
Drive -The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink
Devoured -How What We Eat Defines Who We Are by Sophie Egan
Mom & Me by Maya Angelou
Blitzed- Drugs in the Third Reich by Norman Ohler
Rabid by Bill Wasik
What to Remember When Waking by David Whyte
The Book of Joy by Dalai Lama & Desmond Tutu
I’m Judging You by Luvvie Ajayi
Eating Mindfully by Susan Albers
The Upside of Irrationality by Dan Ariely
The Spy by Paulo Coelho
Lots of fiction…. The Otherland Series by Tad Williams, White Fang & The Call of the Wild by Jack London, The Three Musketeers by Andre Dumas, The Bear and the Nightengale by Katherine Arden, The Secret Place by Tana French, Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery, and How to Walk Away by Katherine Center.

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