Katherine Barber - Because they told her she couldn’t.

In its first year, the Death Race was a complete mystery.  What intrigued Katherine was that the flyer, and her husband at the time, told her she wouldn’t be able to finish. She tells Don and Yancy about some of the most difficult and ridiculous challenges she faced. Including the fact that she did not see another competitor for the first several hours of her race. Her journey began with a random flyer picked up at the Original General Store, that said in no uncertain terms; Doubt You will Finish, a non-existent gear list, and a supposed change in start time and it’s still not over. She was the first-ever female Death Racer and the first-ever female Death Race finisher.

Note: memory can be a mysterious thing, especially when it comes to Death Race challenges. What a racer perceives is not always what the race actually entails. One small note of correction - the 2007 race was closer to 12 hours than 24.

Katherine participated in 2007, 2009 and 2012 Death races 

Key Points:

1. Be prepared to be unprepared 
2. Be grateful for what you have, not what you should have 
3. Doubts and fears are a motivator, use them as such. 
4. You can and will do more than what your resume suggests. 
5. Find the joy in the task at hand. 
6. Fulfillment isn't about what you get out of it, it's about what others get from you. 
7. Be humble, be gracious, be grateful, be joyful, be helpful.  
8. You will never know what you can accomplish, till you show up. 
9. Grit where is it born from. 
10. You are not the sum of your past experiences, you are what you have become. 

 Sign up, show up, move forward inch by inch. 

CREDITS:

Producer: Marion Abrams

Host: Don Devaney, Yancy Culp 

Sound recording: Korey Smerk

Editing: Carrie Arick

Synopsis: Don Devaney, Marion Abrams 

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