Pam Reed

Pam Reed, born Pamela J. Reed on February 27, 1961, in Palmer, Michigan, is an American ultrarunner who lives in Tucson, Arizona and Jackson, Wyoming. In 2002 she became the first woman to win the Badwater Ultramarathon outright, setting a women's course record at the time, and she won it again in 2003. That same year she set a 24-hour American record of 138.96 miles in San Diego, California. In 2021 she completed her 100th 100-mile race, and in 2023 she finished the Western States Endurance Run, the Badwater Ultramarathon and the Hardrock Hundred Mile Endurance Run within a single month. She was inducted into the Pima County Sports Hall of Fame in 2017, the Arizona Runner's Hall of Fame in 2019 and the American Ultrarunning Hall of Fame in 2022, and she wrote the book The Extra Mile, published in 2006.