#135 | Zone 2 Benefits, How Many Strength Sessions Are Enough? & Stomach Issues While Racing
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Choose Strong with Sally and Eddie McRae
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🗓️ 2 March 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Listen in as we discuss the importance of preemptive gut health, how many times a week you should strength train while training for a race and the importance of the zone 2 slog. Thanks again for choosing to listen to this podcast. We are so grateful you pushed play! Please like, subscribe and head over to Apple Podcasts and leave us a positive review 🙏🏼
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to another episode of the Chew Strong podcast. |
| 0:09.8 | I'm just going to start off by saying hello to all of our youth listeners, which we haven't done in a couple of episodes. |
| 0:16.4 | Kids are getting excited about two things. |
| 0:18.9 | One, they are excited about the upcoming daylight savings time. |
| 0:22.9 | It is spring forward, kids. That means you're going to be losing an hour of sleep before school, |
| 0:28.3 | which is always the hard one. But I will say this, it'll be a lot lighter out at your sports practices |
| 0:35.1 | or just hanging out outside, which we all love. |
| 0:38.4 | And for our early morning runners and those of you that run after work, I mean, this is usually |
| 0:44.4 | the time of year that we look forward to. It just feels like the days are just now starting |
| 0:48.2 | to get a little bit longer. Youth, as always, know that Eddie and I are always rooting for you |
| 0:53.2 | and whatever goals that you're working toward. |
| 0:55.8 | It's been really fun in these past few weeks some of the events we've been doing to meet kids and hear about the things that they're doing. |
| 1:03.3 | For everyone who has just started their run, whether you are on the treadmill, you're on the road, running in the sand a mountain or maybe i don't know enduring a storm |
| 1:15.7 | a storm there is a big huge storm on the east coast yeah that just is rolling in like as we speak |
| 1:22.5 | i just had a meeting and it was a zoom call yeah with someone and i asked I asked her, I go, well, where are you calling in |
| 1:30.1 | from? She said, New York City, we just got 20 inches of snow in the city. Oh, yeah. In the city. |
| 1:37.2 | 20 inches in the city. Yeah. Not in Buffalo. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, we know a lot of our friends are covered in snow and rain. |
| 1:47.5 | And as always, we are rooting for you. |
| 1:49.6 | Well done on Showing Up. |
| 1:50.7 | For those you to have pushed play because you have just started a race, it is so much fun when we hear about how we get to join people in a race. |
| 1:58.6 | Some of us actually turn us on in the later stages of a race, you know. |
| 2:01.7 | I wonder why. |
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