We have spoken on the WASP with a few of among the hundreds of amazing personal stories of how they got to the starting line of the Leadville Trail 100, and more so, to the finish line. I was rather impressed with the 18-year old guy we spoke with, Alden Iselin, completing the race as such a green runner, but the 18-year old division female winner, Lauryn Wojcik, really blows me away. Get this, her longest previous race was 6K. Yes 6K, a bit over 3½ miles. She had never before run a trail race. Plus she had been injured and cross-trained for months until she was able to begin running again in June – two months before the race! Her longest training run in that span was 30K. Hope Pass was the only part of the course she’d ever been on before. Her finish time was a very, very respectable 28:19:50, and how about this? That made her the 29th female overall! Yet her understated reaction on her Instagram post was “Ouch.” Here’s a quirky stat, she was actually faster going up Hope Pass than down it! So how did she do it? Believe it or not, she was spurred by a lack of self-confidence, which has likely markedly changed after this. I think you’ll be as amazed as I am hearing about the unique ways in which Lauryn pulled off this insane feat, including being a dedicated planner. She is a structural engineering student at Cal Poly-SLO, and that being in her DNA also shows up in her approach. I hope you enjoy, and even pickup a few training ideas, from this chat with this really nice young woman who has a ton of potential both on and off the trails.
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