Long Run 270 - Ashley Paulson

Scotty (0:01)

All right, you guys, this is gonna be a long run episode of me and Ashley Paulson. If you don't know who she is, which some of you might not, well, she's got the 100 mile world record for the fastest female 100 miler, and she's been around the sport for a while. She was a marathoner, she was a triathlete, she has four kids, she lives in Utah. I'm just telling you the kind of the things that I've figured out about her in the ramp up to this. And I've reached out to her maybe like four years ago. It hasn't been back and forth getting this thing scheduled.

Not because of anyone's fault, just delay and picking it up again, whatever. And I did meet her personally once at Jackpot, and her and her husband, they were delightful. And I said, I have to do a podcast with you guys. And then finally, it's just happened. It's finally happened. So we're going to talk, it's going to be fun, and this isn't brought to you by anybody. And let's just do it. Let's just talk to Ashley Paulson.

No sponsors is the way to go, man.

SPEAKER_2 (1:01)

Let me tell you, it makes my life easier. I don't have to argue about copy or when am I going to do it, do an awkward transition. She's a Badwater Champ.

I'm excited.

Scotty (1:25)

It's going to be fun. I really want to get to know her.

How are you?

Ashley Paulson (1:31)

I am so good. How are you? Thank you for being so flexible on my time.

SPEAKER_4 (1:38)

Well, thank you.

Ashley Paulson (1:39)

What service I get.

Scotty (1:40)

Well, we were working on it for like four years, so I figured we could be flexible at this point because I had reached out to you, and then I think I dropped the ball, and then I met you guys at the jackpot. That was like two years ago.

Ashley Paulson (1:53)

Yes.

SPEAKER_6 (1:54)

Okay, so yes.

Ashley Paulson (1:55)

Fifteen minutes was no big deal when it's been a few years.

SPEAKER_7 (1:58)

I forgot about that actually.

Ashley Paulson (2:00)

Yeah.

Scotty (2:00)

No, that's great. We're casual over here too. It's more about getting to know people, people they see you on the internet. There's this lady with the pink hair, she's crazy, she's doing all this crazy stuff. And they're probably like, who is this woman? And all they have to go on so far is that I met you once and I thought that you guys were both pretty delightful. So we're gonna learn more about you today.

Ashley Paulson (2:23)

I love it. Well, good.

Scotty (2:25)

Did you stay in touch with those people you did the seven continents with? Are you still friends with them?

Ashley Paulson (2:30)

Oh, yes.

Especially the girls, we're on a group chat. Like, you know, we don't communicate a ton, but like, you know, every few weeks, we're like, hey, how's everybody doing? And kind of check in. So we haven't seen each other since then, all together, but here and there, we'd get little, you know, I've gone out to New York and done lunch with Bex a few times and, you know, so it's little meetups as we can, but there's always gonna be a bond forever for sure.

Scotty (2:58)

Well, Shereen the Machine is local to here, and she's actually done a show here in the studio with me, and she's been, yeah, so.

SPEAKER_10 (3:06)

I love her.

SPEAKER_11 (3:08)

She did promise me last week, actually.

SPEAKER_9 (3:10)

I think it was Sunday, so just whatever today is, two days ago, she promised me she'd come visit me this summer, or this winter.

Scotty (3:17)

Well, I think that she would be a kick-ass mountain trail runner.

SPEAKER_12 (3:21)

Oh, she would.

SPEAKER_11 (3:23)

Think about it.

SPEAKER_13 (3:24)

Whatever she puts her mind to, she is.

Scotty (3:25)

But she's got that, like, skiing, like, fearless going down the mountain, and then add that to the speed. I mean, it's kind of weird. She would be. Yeah, she should do it.

SPEAKER_14 (3:33)

She would be amazing. Yep, she should.

SPEAKER_9 (3:35)

I keep telling her, come out.

SPEAKER_14 (3:36)

We've got trails for days, and she stays in Chicago.

Scotty (3:40)

Yeah.

SPEAKER_2 (3:40)

Well, if I run into her, I'm going to definitely encourage her to go out there.

Scotty (3:43)

But I think she should make that jump. Like, you put her in, like, a mountain 50k or something, like Speed Goat, she'd probably crush that shit.

SPEAKER_14 (3:50)

Oh, she would. Absolutely.

Scotty (3:52)

So you just got back, you're on a run, and then you just got done doing the Bigfoot 200?