Episode #57: Rachel Belmont on taking big risks & training to run the Volcano Ultramarathon
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English - August 05, 2021 02:26 - 54 minutes - 102 MBFitness Health & Fitness Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Our guest this week is ultrarunner, skydiver, and nurse, Rachel Belmont.
Rachel never stops moving. She's run the NYC marathon four times, the Boston Marathon, and a marathon on 4/7 of the continents, in locations such as Ireland, Tunisia, and Jordan.
Prior to the pandemic, the New Jersey native was training to run the Mount Everest Ultramarathon. Just 24 at the time, Rachel would have been the youngest person to ever run the race. Unfortunately, the race was canceled because of the pandemic, and Rachel was forced to shift her focus to another race.
She's now training for the Volcano UltraMarathon in Iceland at the beginning of September.
In this episode, Rachel discusses her love of challenging herself, training for the Mount Everest Ultramarathon, living with the disappointment that the race wouldn't happen, and setting her sights on Iceland and the Volcano UltraMarathon.
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