#140 | Cocodona 250 Shoe Line-Up, Lifting After a Run & Sparkling Water
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Choose Strong with Sally and Eddie McRae
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
In this episode we chat shoe rotation for the upcoming 250 mile race in AZ, some Sally Says Q & A and we touch on the taper that has begun in Flagstaff. And, as always, we touch on so many other things that you will for sure be entertained by and encouraged by. Thanks for listening!
Other episode highlights:
- Boston Marathon recap stories
- “Boston Magic” in 2005
- Mount to Coast Double Boston
- Humanoid robot half-marathon world record
- Choose Strong listener highlights
- Lifting after a run - good idea?
- Navigating friendship change
- Sally’s Cocododona 250 shoe rotation line-up & breakdown
- “Key items” (gear-wise) coming to Cocodona 250
- Taper time & how the knee is feeling
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome back. It is great to have everyone with us. I am coming at you from |
| 0:10.9 | Flagstaff, Arizona, just 10 days out from Kokadona 250. So I'm here getting a little bit of |
| 0:18.8 | altitude training, hanging out with McKenzie, |
| 0:25.8 | working from this nice little Airbnb, which, Eddie, it's so funny. |
| 0:33.1 | After I booked the Airbnb, I get an immediate message from the people that own the house. |
| 0:34.6 | They are in the trail running community. |
| 0:35.6 | Oh, no way. |
| 0:36.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:40.0 | And they're like, hey, like my wife's doing Sedona 125. |
| 0:41.0 | What? |
| 0:43.4 | Yeah, so super cool. |
| 0:44.0 | That's awesome. |
| 0:45.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:50.1 | So, and then Eddie, you are back home in Hennington Beach. |
| 0:51.2 | I am. |
| 0:58.7 | I'm in sunny California and missing you tremendously, but we get to see each other online here. |
| 1:00.8 | Oh, yeah. Yeah. |
| 1:07.2 | I don't know. I see you and I have quite the time of your life when I am out. No, it's extremely boring. |
| 1:08.9 | Was it a red pizza brewery last night? |
| 1:10.6 | No, it's extremely boring. Was it red pizza brewery last night? No, it's extremely boring here. |
| 1:12.4 | We had like leftovers. |
| 1:15.3 | It was boring. |
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