116. Clare Gallagher Interview! Leadville 100 Winner and Earth-Raging Superhero

Some Work, All Play

David Roche and Megan Roche

Running, Sports

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2022

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

It's our first interview ever, with our favorite human and athlete in the world! Clare Gallagher won the 2022 Leadville 100 Miler in the 5th-fastest time ever just 36 hours before we recorded the interview. A historic 100 mile win and a 75-minute podcast episode are both equal feats of endurance in our eyes. Clare is a running legend, with wins at Western States, Leadville, CCC, Black Canyon 100k, and the Way Too Cool 50k, all by age 30. But even more importantly, she is a brilliant and world-changing human who is an environmental advocate about to embark on a new journey with marine protection. We love Clare, and we know you will too!

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0:00.0	Woohoo! Welcome to the Summer Call Play Podcast. We are so happy to be with you today.
0:05.1	It's Tuesday. Sixth of Tuesday.
0:07.2	Freakin' Tuesday and we are extra pumped on this magical Tuesday because we got to sit down
0:12.0	and interview Claire Gallagher. I think I've been waiting for this moment for six years.
0:15.8	We've been long time friends with Claire. She's probably a favorite person to invite to dinner
0:20.3	because we'll just have these long three hour conversations with her and we got to make one of
0:25.3	these conversations a podcast episode and it was a joy. It was so much fun. We were recording
0:30.8	this after we did the episode with Claire. There's everything from Claire talking about some deep
0:35.9	philosophical things to specific things about running to Manatee Farts. This episode has it all.
0:41.8	It truly had it all. I just wanted to keep recording. She is probably 36 hours post finishing
0:47.5	Leadville where she had crushed the race and I was like, Claire, how are you being so coherent and
0:53.7	wonderful right now? I would be fully just in a soup of just fatigue and gnarliness and not
1:01.1	feeling good and she was just typical Claire being Claire and it was fun. It's wild to think about what
1:05.9	is going through her physiology right now. As she's talking to us on this podcast, if we were
1:10.3	looking at her biomarkers, her creatine kinase would probably be at a level that would require
1:14.0	hospitalization if she went into the emergency room. Every single one of those markers is off and
1:18.3	somehow Claire stepped up, talked to us for 75 minutes and right now I feel like I've taken
1:23.3	1,000 shots of coffee and I'm ready to go crush the world so we hope you feel the same way too.
1:28.1	That's usually how we feel when we after we interact with Claire. We said this in the podcast
1:32.2	interview but after we have dinner with Claire, I need like a time to like meditate and come down
1:36.8	because I am so amped and energized that I won't be able to sleep at night and I don't take that
1:41.2	time to decompress. She's just a life force, an incredible human. She's been a mentor for me.
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