#134 | Running Races as Training, Winter Olympics, & Running After Leg Day
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Choose Strong with Sally and Eddie McRae
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
We are back again to bring you a bit of everything in this episode. From Sally training on the Cocodona 250 course, some Winter Olympics banter, and some solid "Sally Says" questions & answers. We know you will enjoy this one!
Other episode highlights:
- Visual / mental training on the course you will race on
- 74 days until Cocodona 250
- Training in Lone Pine on the Badwater 135 course
- Winter Olympics
- Sally the athlete & Eddie the commentator at the next Olympics
- Community highlights
- Sally’s favorite socks to run in
- Should you run on tired legs?
- How to use a race as a training run
- Rain gear necessities
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, it is great to join you today. Welcome to the Choose Strong podcast. I'm hanging out with |
| 0:12.2 | Eddie. We got some hot coffees. It's raining outside. I'm not going to lie. Mine is |
| 0:17.6 | lukewarm. Is it lukewarm now? Yeah. Yeah. We've had a few interruptions. Yeah, but it's in my cup. The soundboard went out. It was broken. Yeah, we have some sound chaos going on outside, but, you know, we've made it. We got bear snuggled up next to me. I know that even people watching can't see him, |
| 0:38.6 | but he's just nestled into this big fluffy blanket sleeping. And, you know, this past week, |
| 0:46.2 | I've definitely been jealous of bear. What is that? Oh, to be a dog that your number one is just to |
| 0:52.5 | eat and sleep all day. Just to sleep. I was going to say, |
| 0:54.4 | just to sleep. He's been sleeping so much. He has. I think he's getting old. Yeah, I was going to say |
| 0:59.2 | he's considered an old man now. Yeah. Like what year? He'll be five this year. So like five in dog |
| 1:05.0 | years, that's your old, old man. Yeah, I think so. Oh, bear, little cuddler. All he lives for is as soon as you sit down, |
| 1:15.2 | he just has to be right next to you. He has to be touching you and just snuggled up, and then he just |
| 1:19.0 | goes to sleep. So, what a good dog. What a good dog. What a sweetheart. Ed, how are you doing? |
| 1:24.4 | I'm doing pretty good. Uh, you know, I to have you back because you've been gone for a while. |
| 1:32.7 | Yeah, did you miss me? |
| 1:33.5 | I missed you immensely, tremendously. |
| 1:36.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:36.6 | And it's good to have you back. |
| 1:39.3 | Good you have it back in the house. |
| 1:41.5 | Well, it's good to be back. |
| 1:42.2 | I went and saw McKenzie up in Flagstaff. I got some time |
| 1:45.2 | on the Kokadona 250 course training, and it was Valentine's weekend. McKenzie's team had left. Some of |
| 1:53.5 | them went to Boston, some of them went to Washington, and McKenzie is just now back from an injury, |
| 2:00.0 | and so she's only a couple weeks into training. And so she was all by |
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