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#5 Shalane Flanagan: “One Who Leads”

Choose Strong

Choose Strong with Sally and Eddie McRae

Health & Fitness

51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2022

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

When you know your purpose in life and you choose to give it your 100% best effort every day of your life; this is what it looks like! Meet the legendary Shalane Flanagan and hear her inspiring story from childhood to present day and what she’s planning to do this year! Shalane is an American distance runner, Olympic medalist, and winner of the NY City Marathon, to name just a few! Listen and be inspired; you don’t want to miss this episode! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sallymcraepodcast/support

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Choose Strong podcast.

0:05.0

I'm your host, Salome McCrae.

0:07.0

Thank you for joining me today.

0:08.0

I'm thrilled to announce our very first guest on the show, Shalane, Grace Flanagan.

0:16.0

I say her entire name because I love knowing the meaning of a person's name and Shalane means one who leads

0:22.0

and I love that it's followed up by her middle name, Grace. Shalane has chosen strength in her

0:27.7

life again and again identifying her passion and great love for Runny and never veering from it.

0:34.3

Her gift and consistent hard work is vastly seen in her list of accomplishments

0:40.8

and the records that she's been setting for almost 20 years. She's an Olympian, multiple American record

0:47.8

holder, and recently ran all six major marathons in a seven-week span clocking in at 243 or faster.

0:57.4

I could easily spend the next 10 minutes talking about her incredible accomplishments.

1:01.9

But the interview is why you're here.

1:03.6

So let's go ahead and dive into it.

1:05.0

I do want to encourage you, though, as you listen to this interview.

1:09.3

This is one of my favorite things about her

1:12.7

and really why I wanted her on in the first place.

1:15.5

Shalane is definitely a woman of class.

1:18.8

And I love that she is always looking to elevate others.

1:23.5

I love that she is constantly showing her gratitude towards those who support her and always

1:31.8

looking for ways to help others in their journey.

1:35.3

Yes, she's also a coach.

1:37.6

She's also going to talk a little bit about one of her goals for this year, which actually

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