264. Western States 100 Goals, Fears, and Dreams! Plus a Sports Science Study of the Decade!

Some Work, All Play

David Roche and Megan Roche

Sports, Running

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

We're here! It's race week for the Western States 100. This episode talks through how we're feeling before the moonshot. Hopefully there are helpful similarities to all of the big, scary things in your lives!

We also break down a new study that feels like the Manhattan Project of sports science, testing "replicability" in the field. You know it's serious when there are 99 authors! It found low replicability rates, particularly related to effect size, with massive implications for how we think about interpreting research.

Finally, we answer a question about building belief in life.

Thank you so much for being here along the journey! A year ago, this would have seemed unthinkable. But with the love and support of so many people lifting us up, here’s what we’ve learned in that time:

All big scary goals are unthinkable before they happen.

Training is the test, and racing is the celebration. Time to celebrate!

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life.” -Mary Oliver (Ollie’s namesake)

BELIEVE.

WILDLY.

PRECIOUSLY.

-David and Megan

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0:00.0	Woohoo.
0:01.0	Welcome to the Some Work All Play podcast.
0:03.0	We are so happy to do with you today.
0:05.0	Happy Tuesday.
0:06.0	It's Tuesday.
0:07.0	And I found a creature in the wild on this Tuesday.
0:09.0	A creature in the wild.
0:10.0	Are you talking about me and are you talking about me running?
0:12.0	I'm talking about you running in the short shorts, the orange shorts and the super shoes.
0:17.0	And I came around.
0:18.0	I dropped off Lee and Ollie this morning and I I came back into the neighborhood. And you were absolutely flying. I was like, what's happening right now? Yeah. And straight from that run into this podcast. So I am podcasting with Super Shoes on. That's how you know this is going to be good vibes. Have you done that before? I don't know. I'm sure I have. This is the week for 4% better on the podcast.
0:38.2	I feel it.
0:38.6	It's the five-year anniversary of the podcast.
0:40.7	Holy shit, you're right.
0:42.0	Over five years, we've done everything.
0:43.7	Yeah.
0:44.5	At some point, everything.
0:46.4	Our listeners probably know, they're like, you guys, you've told us that you've
0:48.8	podcasted in your sweepers shoes like three different times. So yeah, that's wild. Five years. Five years. And so amazing.
0:55.2	And what a good week of reflection for it. Western States Week. We'll talk about that a little bit.
0:59.6	But what I was doing when you saw me was the race week run I do every single time, which is on the
1:05.7	weeks of hundreds, I don't really do hard workouts, but I do a neighborhood cruise loop where I just look at my heart rate,
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