Episode 5: Maddie Giegold

The Trail Network Podcast

Today, Katie Asmuth is joined by Maddie Giegold. Maddie is a chief emergency medicine resident at UCSF and also a trail runner. She is passionate about wilderness medicine and event medicine. She loves trail running, gravel cycling, jumping into cold bodies of water, sleeping outdoors, flowers, and double-fisting ice cream. She is also a junior ranger at 19 national parks and wilderness areas.

In this episode, we talk about experiences with medical direction in races such as The Mammoth Trail Fest and the Lululemon FURTHER event. She'll also be at Western States and Broken Arrow this year. We talk about the challenges of medical response in remote areas where resources are limited. We also talk about her passion for merging her life as a trail runner with emergency medicine.

What we talked about:

2:20- Where school and life have taken her

3:40- Finding the love for trail running and goals looking ahead at her trail running career

8:00- Combining her love for racing and medicine

15:35- Limitations to medical practice during ultra races

21:25- Her role at FURTHER

26:50- Making the decision to allow a runner to keep going versus pulling them from the race

31:20- How FURTHER could change the landscape of medical directing during ultra races

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