(dramatic music)
- [Jason] It's a fantasy land out here.
This is raw, mountain, Chinese craziness.
- [Meredith] It's unpredictable at this point.
Hot, cold, happy, mad, sad, everything.
That's an ultra.
It's like an emotional experience.
It's gonna be highs and lows all day.
So, you kind of just need to be prepared for everything.
(dramatic music)
(upbeat music)
- Yeah.
We're both learning, and our perceptions are changing.
When you get to experience that
with somebody else, it's kind of fun.
- [Jason] In the big cities, there
aren't a lot of people out running.
There aren't a lot of people jogging.
- [Meredith] Jason and I were kind of blown away,
how this is the cleanest city I've
ever seen, and it's a huge city.
- [Jason] The actual road running, and exercising,
and traveling around the city to do so...
It was foreign.
- [Meredith] We're athletes, you know.
We gotta get a workout, and we're
gonna do it regardless of where we are.
I started skiing when I was two years old,
and I started running when I was around eight,
and so, I just have a love and a passion for both of them.
- [Jason] We went and spoke to the Chinese
people at some of these runner events.
- [Meredith] China's in a boom right now with ultra running.
The races that they're doing are awesome.
- My success in China is related to the
fact that I live at a high elevation.
I train in the San Juan mountains in southwest
Colorado, which is remote and steep.
They have some similarities to
those beastly mountains in China.
- All that's doing is kind of warming up the muscles.
At the first talk that we gave, it was primarily women.
- Because I know all about Jason already,
the video that Meredith played about the skiing...
It's just wild to me, and it's just so cool.
(applause)
- [Meredith] Most of the women that were there were...
They're not runners.
They just wanted to know what I was doing,
or what Jason was doing, and I thought that
was really powerful, because it just means
their culture is starting to engage in it,
and this is the first step.
- [Jason] People are motivated and excited.
- [Vicki] There's something new, something
more fun than just running on a road.
- [Jason] And I felt excited to
be part of something that is kind of
pushing the edge a little bit.
For the trail-running world, this is as gnarly as it gets.
This is as wild as it gets.
This is also in a place that everybody hasn't been before.
(upbeat music)
They have this ancient history.
Hundreds and even thousands of years of
what they've been eating, that is
so specialized and different from what we are used to.
- Octopus?
Wow.
Jason!
Yeah, and you put it in the soup?
- Oh, you can just eat it.
- You can just eat it?
- Yeah, you package it and then you eat it.
- [Meredith] It kind of just felt like...
Vicky, I felt like we became best friends in five minutes.
- [Vicky] They are very friendly.
Jason and Meredith, they are stars to us.
Pro-running stars.
Anything is strange to them, yeah.
This is really funny.
- [Jason] This felt extra big, and
extra untamed, and uncharted.
- [Meredith] I didn't really see what we were
driving through, but we did the five-hour drive
up to Mount Siguniang.
- The first thing about trail running is that...
Well, I don't really like the crowd.
I like nature, and I enjoy running through the mountains.
I enjoy the peace.
(upbeat music)
- [Meredith] It just reminded me of the Tetons, and
I love the Tetons, but this was on a bigger scale.
Everywhere I looked, I was just...
This is the most beautiful range I've ever seen.
(delicate music)
- Oh, that we tried.
- Yeah.
- Meredith, this is the yellow berry's juice.
Sweetheart.
- Ten dollars.
That's how much it is.
- You put it in the water.
It will help you with the high-altitude sickness.
- Really?
- This one, yeah, and this one will
reduce your blood pressure, relax your...
Make your blood circulation better.
- [Jason] Wow.
- Yeah.
- This is really good to see these.
- Will they let me go?
Would they let me do it?
I think it's important to immerse
yourself with other cultures.
Those women were so awesome, and
they were doing their traditional dancing.
They were showing us them, and I think that's
a really unique thing to have with people.
(upbeat music)
- [Jason] It was neat to see these
mountain people just surviving out here on the
edge of the Sichuan Province in western China.
It was surreal, and it's one-of-a-kind.
- My greatest achievement so far, in my
running career was, I was second at TDS at UTMB.
A 120K, it's the best an American
has done in this race, both male and female.
It was really eye-opening how
much they cared about this race.
- [Jason] These people are just all
about ultra trail Mount Siguniang.
- [Meredith] This race was 66K.
It was almost 40 miles, but at this sustained altitude.
You know, I don't think I knew what to
think of the race, or where I was running.
- This is the highest mountain race in the world.
- The elevation, it averages around 13.
- Sustained for sure.
- And I've never done anything like this before.
- It's a November fourth race, so it's a
difficult time to be really in the best shape.
- Because I feel like...
- [Jason] Do you feel challenged, are you excited to?
- I'm excited, I'm...
Yeah, no, I'm excited, but I kind of
get the impression that people think, instantly,
"Oh, yeah, she's gonna finish it and crush it."
And that's always nerve-wracking
when you have that expectation.
No woman has actually finished this race, so
that's really intimidating, and so
my goal was, "I just gotta finish".
I think it's gonna be kind of hard
for me to pull back, racing, because I always
wanna go out pretty hard, but I don't think you can.
- I thrive on this.
I'm not looking to run as fast
as I can on established routes.
I wanna get to do some new, cool, crazy stuff
in these mountains, in the Siguniang mountains.
That's what I was after.
Seems like I'm having a relatively good day,
I've got enough clothes, if things
go really bad, and it's humid, it's wet,
it's snowy, it's 14 and a half thousand feet, and
eight degrees out, or something.
Weather forecasts can strike fear.
It could be chilly.
(crowd cheering)
(upbeat music)
- [Meredith] The race started at 3 AM, and
so it's in the dark, but by the
time I got up to I think the third checkpoint,
I was way above the treeline, in the snow, and
when the sun started to come up, it was just like,
"Oh my gosh, where are we?"
Because it was just peak after peak after peak.
Just snow-covered, and it's probably one of
my favorite moments of a race ever.
Seeing the sun rise, and being where I was, and...
It was a really powerful experience.
- [Jason] It's a special thing to get to a
place that is this majestic, and unspoiled.
It was raw, raw mountain trail.
The steepness and technical nature...
The ability to hurt yourself...
Oh! Oh! Oh!
It was more diverse than most all-trail races,
just because of it being remote China.
- [Meredith] We kind of ran around this
big mountain range, and that just made
me feel really happy, especially to
see the women like that, because that's awesome.
They're going for it, and as a culture,
what I saw out of them is, they
are exploring their own lands, and they're
getting after it, and they're doing it.
- [Jason] Ultra Tour Mount Siguniang,
overall, is more gnar, it's more difficult.
Challenging because it's ridiculously
high, and it also has the threat of...
The reality, this year, of having a whole bunch of snow.
This is the wild west of mountain running,
and it happens in China at this race.
(upbeat music)
- This was a real mountain race.
True mountain-running.
- [Jason] It requires a lot of strength,
and it requires some luck.
It was truly an adventure.
All done, we did it.
Yeah, yeah.
Whoo!
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