190. Sarah True, Olympian & Ironman Triathlete

Ali on the Run Show

Ali Feller

Run, Health & Fitness, Women, Inspiration, Runner, Entrepreneur, Sports, Fitness, Health, Running

4.9 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

"One of the hardest conversations I ever had was to admit that I’d been struggling. And I no longer wanted to be alive."

Sarah True is a professional triathlete and Olympian. On this episode, she honestly and vulnerably shares her story of competing at the 2016 Olympics in Rio, hitting rock bottom, and the intense emotional recovery that followed. She opens up about her history with mood disorders and depression, and talks about how stress affects her body and her performance. She also talks about the past two years competing at the Ironman distance, including a very good year followed by a challenging one.

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What you’ll get on this episode:

On diversity, inclusivity, privilege, and bias in sport (3:00)
Sarah reflects on her racing year (8:30)
Sarah talks about competing at the 2016 Olympics in Rio, and the emotional aftermath that followed (24:45)
Sarah talks about managing her depression, and what that looks like today (36:00)
How Sarah met her now-husband, fellow professional athlete Ben True (46:00)
What Sarah says are the universal struggles in sport (51:00)

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0:00.0	This episode of The Alley on the Run Show is brought to you by Aftershocks.
0:08.7	Welcome to The Alley on the Run Show.
0:10.8	I'm your host Allie Feller, and every week I talk with inspiring people who lead
0:15.6	interesting lives on the run and beyond. And while running is what brings us all together
0:20.3	on these episodes we cover so much more than that. So join me right here every Thursday to learn
0:25.8	about the decisions people have made to get where they are today and how getting
0:29.6	sweaty has factored in. My guest today is Sarah True. Sarah is a professional triathlete
0:35.6	and Olympian who has spent the past two years competing at the Iron Man distance.
0:40.6	Now I need to keep this intro short because, whoa, we got into some stuff on this episode.
0:46.4	I won't spoil too much, but I will just say it got a little heavy at times, even when we tried
0:51.3	to keep it light. We kept veering back into some pretty serious topics. But I'm grateful for that.
0:56.7	I'm grateful for Sarah's honesty and vulnerability, and I appreciate just how much she was willing
1:01.4	to share with me, with all of us. We talked about inclusivity in sport, we talked a lot about mental
1:07.2	health, and Sarah shared her own experience with depression and suicidal thoughts, and she talked
1:12.2	about how she's come back from rock bottom to find her joy. Please join me in welcoming Sarah True
1:18.8	to the Alley on the Run Show. Sarah, welcome to the Alley on the Run Show. I am thrilled to be
1:29.2	sitting down with you this morning. Thanks for being here. Thanks for having me, Alley.
1:34.0	All right, we have so much to get to you today. Before we get into all of the good stuff,
1:38.0	we start every episode like you would start a good run, bike, swim, whatever you've got going on.
1:44.0	We start with a warm-up. If you can please warm us up, tell everyone who you are, where you're from,
1:50.2	and what you do. All right, I'm Sarah True. I live in New Hampshire, and I do trailbugs. Yay!
1:58.4	And yay, New Hampshire. This is like, listen, there's a lot I love about you, but I love that you're
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