#157 - Sally McRae | Running 507 Miles In 81 Days | Choose Strong

The Nick Bare Podcast

Nick Bare

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 12 December 2022

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back to the podcast for her second time, elite runner and BPN athlete: Sally McRae!

After completing the Choose Strong Project, Sally sits down with Nick to bond over their love for weight training and how their approach to fitness has evolved over the years. Sally reflects on her early career when many viewed strength training as unnecessary for runners and the unique challenges, she faced in pushing back against that notion as a performance athlete.

Sally passionately speaks to the perspective that life is more about how we make others feel than simply our physical appearance. This episode goes beyond just recognizing the accolades of human performance but really emphasizes the commonalities we all have as humans, whether in parenthood, insecurities, or how to be strong for life.

“Let’s talk about what we’re doing and not what we look like.” - Sally

The Choose Strong Project was an endurance-based event in which she ran 507 miles over the course of 81 days, during 5 separate races. She created this project in honor of her late mother, running 1 mile for every month of her mother’s life. For this project Sally ran Bad Water 135, Angles Crest 100, Leadville 100, Wildstrubel 100k, and a double summit of Mt. Whitney.

About Sally:

Sally McRae is a professional ultra/mountain runner for Nike. Also known as Yellowrunner, Sally often uses her platform to encourage others in their dream journey and to inspire others to live out their lives to the fullest. She is also a mother of two, endurance coach, writer, speaker, and creates content focused on strength training, dedication, and inspiration. She most recently launched her own strength and mental training app: SALLY MCRAE STRENGTH which you can download directly from her website (sallymcrae.com) or Instagram: @yellowrunner

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Nick’s Instagram: @nickbarefitness

Nick’s Youtube: www.youtube.com/user/barelifenutrition

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Transcript

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0:00.0	How often are we tied to the way we look?
0:03.0	We're in, and whether it's our hair, our skin, boobs, but like whatever it is, we, we really believe that
0:11.6	the way that we look is the best thing about us.
0:15.4	That can be really disappointing when you realize that is not the best thing about you.
0:20.6	It's who you are uniquely.
0:23.2	How do you make other people feel when you're in their presence?
0:26.0	What do you do for others?
0:27.2	Like the passions and the goals and the dreams and the things that you just naturally love
0:33.1	and gravitate towards.
0:34.7	I mean, there's so many little pieces that make you so uniquely you.
0:39.8	But the physical side of who you are is absolute wonderful too, because it's so unique.
0:45.4	I mean, every single tiny inch from our fingerprints to the number of hairs on our head, our eye
0:52.1	color, I mean, the way that you walk, I mean, tell me that when, when Steph is half mile
0:56.8	away, you would be able to pick her out from 20 other women.
1:01.0	You know your wife by the way that she walks and that's beautiful, you know?
1:05.1	And I think that we tend to focus so much on certain physical attributes about people
1:11.6	and we obsess over them and we think that's what makes that person valuable.
1:16.0	Or this is the trait that is going to give you permission to do what you love.
1:22.0	And I love that you're disrupting that.
1:24.6	Let's disrupt that.
1:25.8	You do not need to focus so much on what you look like in order to do what you love.
1:30.0	Just do it.
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