In this episode, Chris Thomas sits down with veteran ultramarathon crew member Alicia Reaves as well as her daughter Ruthie Reaves, high school soccer player and newcomer to ultramarathon crewing. As the crew team that helped their husband and father, Trey Reaves, to first ever back-to-back overall victory in solo fashion in the Alabama 650, we go through what it means to be a first class crew for this event. We cover so much in this episode from nutrition support, wound care, old school navigation, the Alabama heat, sleep deprivation, strategizing around the challenge of an incoming hurricane, random photo shoots along the way, and how a race like this really brings people together. There’s so much more to this chat with Alicia and Ruthie, but I’ll let you hear it from the crew themselves in this 7th episode of the Dabbling In Paddleism Podcast…

Book recommendations:
-Ruthie: Where the Crawdads Sing
-Alicia: Where the Red Fern Grows

If you have any questions you'd like me to address on air, ask future guests, or even suggestions for future guests, please send those to me at dabblinginpaddleism@gmail.com or via instagram @dabbling_in_paddleism (https://www.instagram.com/dabbling_in_paddleism?igsh=dDE4aXc3bmd3aXZp&utm_source=qr).