Meet the Mammoths; Jill Dennes!

<p> <a href="https://themammoth200.netlify.app/">⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Play The Mammoth 200⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠</a> Video Game!</p><p><br></p><p>Learn about our Patreon Offers!: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/DistancetoEmptyPod ">⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/DistancetoEmptyPod ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠</a></p><p><br></p><p>Get some free DTE Swag by supporting out sponsors!</p><p><a href="https://janji.com/pages/distance-to-empty">⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://janji.com/pages/distance-to-empty⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠</a>⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and be sure to select &#39;podcast&#39; &gt; &#39;Distance to Empty&#39; on the post purchase &quot;How did you hear about Janji&quot; page. Thank you!</p><p>Check out Mount to Coast here: <a href="https://mounttocoast.com/discount/Distance">⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://mounttocoast.com/discount/Distance⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠</a></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Meet the Mammoths — Jill Dennes: Thirteen Hundreds, and Now the Next Thing</strong></p><p>Today&#39;s guest is a personal trainer and ultrarunning coach out of Nashville who has quietly built one of the more impressive résumés on the Eastern trail circuit — a runner-up overall finish at the Black Hills 100, a start at UTMB last year, and wins and podiums up and down the East. She&#39;s run roughly thirteen hundred-milers. She has never gone 200 miles in a single push. That changes this October.</p><p>Jill Dennes joins us to talk about why, after that many hundreds, the 200 felt like the only thing left to try — and the refreshingly honest reason she picked Mammoth: it had the shortest waitlist, so she got in first. (Naturally, she then got off almost every other waitlist she was on.)</p><p>We get into what UTMB taught her, including a race that started in light rain and turned into a full blizzard, and why a Pennsylvania upbringing on &quot;Rocksylvania&quot; trails still didn&#39;t prepare her for Chamonix. She also talks about practicing what she preaches as a coach: consistency, strength training three to four days a week, and the simple rule of getting the race on the calendar so the training actually happens.</p><p>For a first 200, her approach is proudly loose. She barely studies the course, doesn&#39;t have a sleep plan, has never really hallucinated, and is heading from Nashville&#39;s roughly 500 feet of elevation to the Sierra. She&#39;s winging it on purpose — and explains why expectations can do more harm than good.</p><p>Plus: a former high school point guard enters the Mammoth Basketball League, asks whether made shots come