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#126 | Running Back to Life | Rachel Entrekin on Recovery, Resilience, and Redemption

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Choose Strong with Sally and Eddie McRae

Health & Fitness

51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

Joining the Choose Strong podcast in this episode, is Rachel Entrekin! She is a Norda athlete, and has had recent victories at Cocodona 250, High Lonesome 100 & The Mammoth (and MANY more) . Enjoy getting to know Rachel a little more as she joins Sally in an awesome chat! Enjoy!


Other Episode Highlights:

  • Recent Norda athlete!
  • Background to how Rachel started running
  • High school battle of identity and self-worth
  • Rehab 2x 
  • Ultrarunning “saved her life”
  • Running in the southeast 
  • How Rachel got into trail running
  • A French speaker?!
  • Balancing full time work & high level training
  • Racing 1000 miles this past year
  • PT background & how that’s helped stay injury free
  • The importance of the slow build
  • 2026 plans 


Connect with RACHEL at:

Substack: @rachelentrekin

IG: @rachel__entrekin

Be sure to follow Rachel on IG and to find out more about her upcoming summer Ultra Trail Mount Blanc Camp and how you can join!


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Transcript

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