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Chris Kostman
AdventureCORPS, Inc. 638 Lindero Canyon Rd. #311 Oak Park, CA 91377 USA
www.adventurecorps.com / www.badwater.com
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Welcome Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
General Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Lisa Smith-Batchen, 17 Years and Counting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
A Salute to John Radich, Ten-Time Finisher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
The Dangers of Running in Heat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
The Dangers of Hot Weather Running. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Medical Risks in the Badwater Ultramarathon . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Finisher Data Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Cycling in Death Valley with AdventureCORPS. . . . . . . . . . . 19
Course Map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Official Race Route. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Course Description and Elevation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Death Valley Cup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Official Rules and Regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Race Roster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Photos from Badwater 2011 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
The Race Magazine is published annually by AdventureCORPS, Inc.
638 Lindero Canyon Rd., #311 Oak Park, CA 91377 U.S.A.
www.badwater.com www.adventurecorps.com
Front Cover: Oswaldo Lopez and crew notch their first victory. Dave Nelson photo.
Inside Front Cover: Runners and crews make the pilgrimage up the Portal Road: Dave Nelson photo.
Page 1: Womens champion Sumie Inagaki en route to Furnace Creek: Dave Nelson photo.
Page 3: RD Chris poses with Chris Roman, Tony Portera, and Brenda Carawan: Jeff Bell photos.
Page 40: Final finishers Connie Dockendorf and Eberhard Frixe: Jeff Bell photos.
All photos by Chris Kostman, unless otherwise noted.
Design and Layout by Kevin Fung, [email protected]
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Lisa Smith-Batch:
A 17-Year Journey at BadwaterBy Chris Kostman
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Q&A WITH LISAWhy Badwater: The challenge, the people;
the desert is where I feel most at home. I love
the course and I love Ben and Denise Jones
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always has the most amazing volunteers. As a
race director myself, I know all the time, effort
and dedication that goes into putting on a suc-
cessful event. They are very much appreciated!
Funniest moments?Laughing so hard with my
crew until I threw up. Sand storms where you
are being thrown backwards and all you can dois laugh. Many moments when you would rath-
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hearing people use all kinds of swear words
when in there every day life they never swear.
Coaching:I have coached so many people for
Badwater: I am coaching four for this years
race and I have coached every year. My coach-
ing started years ago with coaching highschool, then college, and it grew and grew as
I learned and learned and learned: Not just
through experience but through education. I
have coached many of the top runners at Bad-
water, even Marshall Ulrich and Ray Zahab! I
love to coach and even more so now that I have
retired from racing!
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to 135 miles. I fell in love with endurance and
distance running. Badwater taught me that it
is not really about the race, yet a journey that
will stay with you for the rest of your life. I have
learned to trust other people who are there to
help you, I have learned that most of the time
you can work through about anything. I have
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ish. Something goes wrong along the way and
you must make a choice that is right for you!
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and he is still one of my best friends, more like
a brother to me. The relationships and bondingwith people that really do care about you will
stay in your life forever.
A 17-YEAR JOURNEY AT BADWATER
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LISA SMITH-BATCHEN
LISAS BADWATER HISTORY
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A SALUTE TO JOHN RADICH,TEN-TIME FINISHER
By Chris Kostman
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Badwater has become like family with me. Run-
ning in 120 plus degree through Death Valley
in July is nuts, as we all know and hear so of-
ten. As any Badwater runner will tell you, its
the challenge of pushing your limits, self dis-
covery, and busting through the low points and
relishing the high ones. It all about Body, Mind
and Spirit and perseverance and courage. Oneof my joys and a privilege is meeting fellow vet-
eran Badwater runners, being along the road
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encouragement to them. You are truly inspired
by each runner out there, their struggles and
triumphs - you feel them too its totally amaz-
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be feeling horrible and having a bad patch
and all seems doom and gloom, but trust me,theres someone having worse! You do come
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Road and Chris presenting you your medal and
buckle makes it all worth it. May Badwater
2012 be good for all of you. Be safe! -JR
A SALUTE TO JOHN RADICH, TEN-TIME FINISHER
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MEDICAL RISKS IN THE BADWATER ULTRAMARATHON
About the author:
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group records in Michigan, North Carolina,
Florida, Tennessee and Virginia. In 1990, shewas ranked 18th fastest masters woman in the
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OFFICIAL RACE ROUTE
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Badwater 0 -282
Telescope Peak Sign on L. 1.8 -200
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