The Marathon Runner Who Crawled to the Water Station

In 2019, during the Badwater 135 ultramarathon across Death Valley, runner Shannon Farar-Griefer collapsed at mile 72. Temperatures had reached 130 degrees. Her crew had fallen behind, and for nearly a mile she had no water, no shade, nothing but cracked asphalt and white desert heat. Witnesses said she crawled the last hundred yards to the aid station on her hands and knees, and when someone finally placed a cup of water in her hands, she wept.…