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Speaker 1 (00:02):
This is I on the Ball on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Want to take part in the show called Up Steve
now went five to two oh four one six seventy
four Ford. Hey, welcome back to Why on the Ball Here,
I'll Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve Riverta, and today
with me is Troy Hutcheson, and we've got fun of
controls here. Now on the phone, we have Molly Sheridan,
a marathon runner, an ultra marathon runner, author, all that

(00:27):
good stuff. Malli, how you doing?

Speaker 1 (00:30):
Hey?

Speaker 3 (00:30):
Great?

Speaker 1 (00:30):
How are you? Steve?

Speaker 4 (00:31):
Fine? Thank you?

Speaker 2 (00:32):
So I came across your name and your story, I
don't know two three weeks ago.

Speaker 4 (00:36):
And I said, I gotta have this woman on.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
And she's up and up in Northern she're up in
the North Pole, and I'm thinking, what the heck are
you doing in the North Pole?

Speaker 1 (00:46):
Yeah, it's crazy.

Speaker 5 (00:47):
It was a marathon up at the North Pole. Actually
ninety degrees at the North Pole.

Speaker 4 (00:51):
Oh ninety Oh okay, then you were you were living life.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
Yeah, living life. It was really interesting.

Speaker 5 (00:58):
This company run Buck Race company owners Oliver Wang He
you know, there's about sixty five athletes and we went
on a ship leaving.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
From Norway and we took seven days on.

Speaker 5 (01:10):
An icebreaker ship to actually get to the North Pole
on an ice on the icy and ran up.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
There a full marathon. So it was really quite an adventure, right.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
So it was a I don't know, a cruise and
a run. Is is that your first time doing it?

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Yeah, it's the first time. It was.

Speaker 5 (01:30):
Actually, Yeah, it's a it's a ship that goes up there.
It's the only ship that can actually make it up
to the North Pole.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
It's one of the only ships in the world that
could do that.

Speaker 5 (01:39):
They have a science crew on that ship doing science
experiments and.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
Stuff in the North Pole. So they put together this,
you know.

Speaker 5 (01:46):
Group of runners to go up there and you know,
get to the actual North Pole to run twenty six.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
Point two miles at the polar ice cap.

Speaker 6 (01:56):
So you said ninety degrees did.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
You then ninety degrees longitude? Yeah?

Speaker 6 (02:05):
Remember, I'm sorry, I was, Wow, that is really hot.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
That's why I said, Okay, you didn't have it that bad,
but you did have a bath.

Speaker 4 (02:16):
So what like when.

Speaker 6 (02:16):
You're in that type of weather and you're doing twenty
plus miles, Like, what is it you wear? Because I'm
sure that's not easy to prepare for.

Speaker 5 (02:24):
No, it's really not, you know, I just did the
seven marathons on seven continents and seven days.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
I got the world record actually in January this year
for being the.

Speaker 5 (02:34):
Oldest woman to do actual seven marathons, seven continents, seven
seven days. And I started in Antarctica, so I was
used to the cold, and I.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
Had really great gear for Antarctica, so I was dressed warmly.
It's really freezing. It's blow zero.

Speaker 5 (02:52):
And cold and the water and so your feet are cold,
and I think that's.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
The part that you know, flesh.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Through the snow and on an ice cap.

Speaker 5 (03:02):
It's just I had waterproof shoes and Mike gar is
really good. It's just about one foot in front of
the others, just to try to overcome the elements because
it's not only freezing, but the wind's blowing and it's
not like it's even you know, it's not good terrain.
I mean you're running in snow drifts, so's it's not

(03:22):
like you have a really nice road that you can
clip off the musle.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
It's really tough.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
So so I'm a journalist by trade, at least that's
what I claim to be. So two questions that I
must ask, why in the world do you do this?

Speaker 4 (03:35):
And are you crazy?

Speaker 1 (03:37):
People ask me that all the time. I think running
is really for me.

Speaker 5 (03:43):
It's a meditative state. I absolutely love to get out
there and run. I'm an ultra marathon runner, so I've
done eighty five ultra marathons, which is any distance over
the twenty six point two, which is like fifty mile races,
one hundred.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
Mile races and such. Absolutely love the distance.

Speaker 3 (04:03):
I just found out that the oldest woman to.

Speaker 5 (04:05):
Do the seven seven seven seven marathons seven continent, seven
days was sixty seven.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
So I turned sixty eight in January and just decided
to go ahead and break that record.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
And by the way, I didn't start.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
Running until I turned fifty. My girlfriend called me and said, hey,
if you want to run a marathon, I said.

Speaker 5 (04:21):
God, no, that sounds awful, Like, why what did you
want to do that for? It's so sweaty, and you know,
she talked me into just going and training, and I
ran my first first marathon at fifty and it kind
of blew my mind that the human body can do
so much more than we ever think as possible. And
after that race, I decided to just I was reading

(04:42):
a Newsweek article about ultra marathons. I read about the
top ten toughest foot races on the planet, and I
decided to go for it and try them.

Speaker 4 (04:50):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (04:52):
So I ran the Yeah, I ran the Badwater Ultra Marathon,
which is one hundred and thirty five miles NonStop from
Death Valley to Mount Whitney and that was one of
the toughest foot races ever. And then I did I
did the marathon to Shop to the Sahara Desert, one
hundred and fifty miles off stage race, and I just
started just finding all these really amazing events that you know,

(05:16):
tested human endurance. And it does sound crazy, and I
know people go why, But you know what, I find
it fascinating.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
And every time I.

Speaker 5 (05:23):
Do something like that, I find out so much about
myself and what we as humans are capable of.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
So I haven't picked up a Guinness World Records in
forever since I was like ten. So is that what
you'll be in or does that exist anymore? Is that
one of the reasons?

Speaker 5 (05:39):
Yeah, Yeah, I didn't really do it for that reason,
except for the last race.

Speaker 1 (05:45):
I decided to go for it just because I thought
it was curious, but.

Speaker 3 (05:48):
Yeah, I'll be in there as one of the oldest
women to do seven seven seven.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
And then the North Pole was put.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
Me into the Grand Slam Club. And I'm actually not
sure who the oldest person.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
There's anybody older than me. I don't know. I did.

Speaker 5 (06:03):
I actually just completed it, you know, just the last week,
and so I don't know where.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
That puts me.

Speaker 5 (06:08):
But it is the Grand Slam Club, which is all
seven continents as well as the North Pole at the
actual North Pole.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
And you're sixty eight, right, you're going to be You're
sixty eight now, yeah, I'm sixty eight.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (06:21):
The only things I run to are the refrigerator in
the restroom. That's tough.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
It's never too late. How old are you?

Speaker 2 (06:30):
Sixty one? I'm sixty one. And that's you're asking too much.
You're asking too much. Yeah, yeah, so what And I
guess you don't need to train because you're always running anyway, right,
I guess what's that? I say you don't need to
train because you're always running. I mean you train every day.

Speaker 5 (06:45):
Well, you know what, I take a couple of days off.
I'm not like a fanatic every single moment running. I
take a couple of days off a week. I really
listen to my body and.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
See when I need to rest. And there's other.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
Things I like to do as well.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
You know, swim and golf and stuff.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
So yeah, I say that I.

Speaker 5 (07:03):
Just have a different mindset about it. I really have
the mindset of I don't go as fast as humanly.

Speaker 1 (07:09):
I'm not a fast, fast runner.

Speaker 5 (07:11):
I have a pace that I do at, a really
relaxed pace that I like and I just moved through space,
and yeah, I just find that it.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
It actually makes.

Speaker 5 (07:23):
Me stay really strong as the years are coming up.
You know, I feel really super strong and healthy. I
don't have any issues with anything. So I'll just keep,
you know, running as long as I possibly can.

Speaker 6 (07:38):
You know one thing, you know, you talk about running
in Antarctica and the North Pole and the weather and
how you have to prepare for that. How do you
prepare for that? Obviously Antarctica helps you with the North Pole,
but like, there's is there a way to prepare your
body to run in that type of weather and that
type of climate.

Speaker 1 (07:56):
Hey, let's face it, we live in Arizona.

Speaker 3 (07:58):
There's something here to help me.

Speaker 1 (08:01):
Prepare for that.

Speaker 3 (08:02):
Honestly, it's I was up in Reno, you know, running
a little bit in the snow up there in the sierras.

Speaker 1 (08:07):
But that's not even it's not even the same. Antarctica
was brutal. That that was.

Speaker 3 (08:12):
Colder than North Paul.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
The wind it was, it was really absolutely brutal.

Speaker 5 (08:17):
What I did is I really researched and I talked
to other runners who had done it, and I found
out like what really what they were wearing.

Speaker 1 (08:25):
I think gear was everything.

Speaker 3 (08:26):
There was a company called gorgeal r that has you know, incredible.

Speaker 1 (08:34):
You know pants and jackets, gloves.

Speaker 3 (08:39):
That are for the Arctic and for those extreme So
I really went out.

Speaker 1 (08:43):
And just got the best equipment I could.

Speaker 3 (08:45):
To try to, you know, cover re part of your
body because.

Speaker 1 (08:48):
It's it's pretty brutal.

Speaker 5 (08:49):
And then the other thing, too, is really your mindset.
You know you're going to be in it, and I
think part of it, a part of these big ultras
and part of doing something like this, is your mindset.

Speaker 1 (08:59):
You know, where's your mental strength.

Speaker 5 (09:01):
You know you have to conjure up like, hey, you're
going to be out there, it's going to be uncomfortable,
it's going to get tough and really hard, and so
how do you handle that, like mentally where you at?

Speaker 1 (09:10):
So for me, it's.

Speaker 3 (09:11):
Just I don't know.

Speaker 5 (09:14):
I have to just really I have to find joy.
This is going to sound weird, but for me, I
have to find a level of fun in the tough parts.
I have to find a level like I wouldn't want
to be doing it just because it's miserable. I want
to go out there and really experience it and try to.

Speaker 3 (09:30):
See how far I could go to try to move
myself to places that other people may.

Speaker 5 (09:35):
Not do so and then when I achieve that, And
there's been a lot of times in my running history
that I haven't the DNF did not finish.

Speaker 1 (09:43):
For whatever reasons that you just can't make it there.

Speaker 2 (09:45):
But that's I wanted to go there too. Because you
started fifty that's eighteen years ago. I'm wondering what the
woman that introduced you to this thinks. One and two?
Are you kind of like this at some points in
your in your adventures and your runs?

Speaker 4 (09:59):
Thing? What the hell am I doing here? And I'm
going to stop? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (10:04):
Well, okay, first of all, my friend Kylie Johnson, she
ran we ran the first the marathon together. We had
a blast.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
We lapped our asses off. It was hilarious.

Speaker 5 (10:12):
We were terrible, we were slow, but when I finished,
I thought, how far can I go? Kylie didn't do
any more marathons. She we had a good weekend, but
that was it for her. But for me, it's something
that's little fire and I just thought I never pictured
myself athletic.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
I never pictured it. I didn't really realize that I
could do that. It kind of blew my mind.

Speaker 3 (10:33):
So I thought, well, I'll go try a fifty k.

Speaker 1 (10:36):
That's only six miles further.

Speaker 3 (10:38):
So I went and ran a fifty k.

Speaker 5 (10:39):
But the question you're asking is why you have to
have a really good why you're doing this, because that
question is going to come up in the middle of
a race, when you're doing fifty or one hundred miles
and you're running out there in the middle of the night.
You better know why, because.

Speaker 3 (10:55):
If you don't have a good why, you're.

Speaker 5 (10:57):
Not gonna make it. There'd be no reason. You know,
what's the purpose For me?

Speaker 3 (11:02):
It was to get to the finish line.

Speaker 1 (11:04):
To find out what I made of and it was.

Speaker 5 (11:06):
Just to dig in and I found out that when
things get really bad, when it's so hard, you're wondering,
like why am I doing this?

Speaker 1 (11:16):
This is so miserable that passes.

Speaker 5 (11:19):
You get to an AID station, you you know, you eat, drink,
you take a minute.

Speaker 3 (11:23):
You regroup, and you get your second win and your
third win.

Speaker 1 (11:26):
And it's weird.

Speaker 3 (11:26):
An hour later, you'll be feeling better down the trail.
It's it's a lot of people don't get to that
park because.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
They just quit. And you know it's and I understand.

Speaker 5 (11:37):
It's not for everybody, but I think the big thing
is you can do so much more than you ever
think as possible.

Speaker 1 (11:43):
You can.

Speaker 3 (11:44):
You know, power walking is just as beneficial. I think,
you know, go out and power walk, move through space.

Speaker 1 (11:49):
In some way. I think our bodies need it.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
The only person I know the dust something like this,
And we had her on the show a few years back,
Pam Reid, and I'm sure you probably know each other,
because yes, I know she does the same kind of
thing in hot, hot climates and maybe in cold climates,
but in hot climates.

Speaker 4 (12:05):
There was something I wanted to.

Speaker 2 (12:07):
Say, Oh, have you turned this into a business or like,
I know your website has.

Speaker 5 (12:12):
Some stuff, well you know what Desert Sky Adventures is
my company, and I sold a lot of my races
over the last couple of years, so we just do.

Speaker 1 (12:21):
We have one big event up in Reno, and my
daughters are running the company.

Speaker 3 (12:25):
But honestly, my daughters are talking about doing.

Speaker 1 (12:27):
A little bit more with it in the next year.

Speaker 3 (12:29):
So because we really know that there's a real need
for people.

Speaker 1 (12:32):
To get out there and walk and run, and we.

Speaker 3 (12:34):
Want to have a little more coaching available and helping.

Speaker 5 (12:38):
People who are at zero who want to get somewhere
or start doing something. So you can look for that
at Desert Sky Adventures. I had the company seventeen years.
We had a ton of races in the past. So
my whole mission on the planet is to help people move,
whether you want to just get out there and walk
and run, whether you want to do a five k
at ten k, whether you just you know you're just starting,

(12:59):
or whether you're zero.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
I've been at zero many times in my life, even.

Speaker 3 (13:02):
In my last career, where something comes.

Speaker 5 (13:04):
Up and you're injured or you're sick or whatever and
you have to go back to zero. I get it,
But you know what, it doesn't take much to really
get out there and move again.

Speaker 4 (13:13):
How longer, how much longer. Do you think we're going
to do this.

Speaker 3 (13:17):
I'm going to do it until I'm a hundred. There's
a number for you, though, I have no idea, you
know what I feel, just I feel grateful that I'm
at where I'm at. I do understand that there's you know, the.

Speaker 1 (13:33):
Clock is ticking.

Speaker 5 (13:34):
I do understand that there's going to come a time
when I can't and that's okay.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
I'll be doing something else.

Speaker 3 (13:39):
I'll be hiking, or I'll be walking or teking or whatever,
and that's fine. I have accomplished so much in the
time that I've been running. I feel so grateful for that.
And we've you know, my companies raise a lot of
money for charitable partners. Every event we've ever done, we
waste fun for charity and help people.

Speaker 5 (13:59):
So it's just it's a great feeling. Like where I'm at,
I mean, the North Pole is like the icing on
the cake.

Speaker 1 (14:05):
Really to get up there and experience.

Speaker 4 (14:07):
That, and you're headed out somewhere else now right for
another one.

Speaker 1 (14:11):
Actually, I'm headed to Germany and Austria.

Speaker 3 (14:14):
Like on Friday, I'm trekking across Germany to the Austrian
border for ten days in the Bavarian for my time off.

Speaker 4 (14:24):
Oh so this is the time off that you go.

Speaker 2 (14:26):
Okay, maybe what you're at you can do some peace
talks where we need peace talks.

Speaker 1 (14:31):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2 (14:33):
Okay, well thanks for joining us. This is crazy stuff.
Congrats you must have thanks so much. You must have
metals and trophies all over the house.

Speaker 1 (14:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (14:41):
I stack them in the corner.

Speaker 1 (14:42):
It's kind of fun.

Speaker 2 (14:43):
Yeah, though, you're just dust collectors. That's okay, we know
what you do. Yeah, thank you, thank you, Molly, appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (14:50):
Thanks so much, Steve. Okay, try Molly Sheridan.

Speaker 4 (14:53):
I'm sure. Come on, I haven't run that much in
my entire life. What's running? I don't know.

Speaker 2 (15:04):
Three of us combined. Put a few of us in
here and combined. You couldn't pay me enough.

Speaker 4 (15:09):
No ock now, no, I'm good.

Speaker 7 (15:13):
Yeah, nothing else, you know, say, it's one thing to
like play a sport like basketball, rackball, whatever, so even
soccer maybe, and you're running a lot, You're you're moving,
but then to tell somebody, hey, go go run four
miles and she's talking about twenty two, you know, one
hundred and fifty miles?

Speaker 4 (15:34):
You know those?

Speaker 2 (15:35):
No, I'm good in cold, cold, Yeah, yeah, thank you.
It gets below thirty years and people freak out. I
freak out, I freaking below sixty you can't wear shorts.
Yeah okay, let's take a break and come back
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