Episode 4: Conquering Extremes: Lucy Ryan's Journey through Ultra Marathons and Resilience

Today on Faceplants to Finish Lines Chad welcomes Lucy Ryan, an endurance athlete and one of the top female ultra athletes in Canada. Lucy shares her experiences from her first ultra marathon in Australia to completing the grueling Badwater 135 Ultramarathon in Death Valley. She opens up about her motivations, her crashes, and her perspective on suffering as a part of the endurance journey. 

Lucy also discusses her motivations, what goes through her mind when she crashes and how she gets herself to get back up and dives deep into one of her biggest faceplants: a mountain bike accident.

Join Chad and Lucy as they chat about their experiences together as part of the ultra marathon community in BC, aging and maturing as an athlete, and her experience and her why for donating a kidney. They also discuss Lucy’s knee replacement surgery and the emotional and physical journey of adapting to a life where she can no longer participate in high-impact endurance events.

Tune in to hear how she is coping with this significant change and her approach to finding new ways to stay active and involved in the athletic community.