77 Chelsea Sodaro - Train Like the Athlete You Want to Become

Purple Patch Podcast

Matt Dixon

Humanpotential, Nutrition, Education, Empower, Fitness, Executive, Coach, Strengthtraining, Purplepatch, Sleep, Cycling, Performance, Running, Recovery, Health & Fitness, Ironman, Swimming, Timemanagement, Triathlon, Meditation, Yoga

4.8 • 647 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

This is a replay of Episode 55 - an interview with Purple Patch Pro, Chelsea Sodaro. After months of rehabbing an injury, Chelsea won IRONMAN 70.3 Santa Rosa with a blistering 1:16 Half Marathon split.

Congratulations, Chelsea!

Chelsea Sodaro was born to be an athlete. Both parents competed in triathlon and Chelsea also remembers her Dad training for the Boston Marathon!

With energy like that in your life, how could you not love sport?! And she did. Chelsea fell in love with running, which took her through college at Cal Berkeley along with a post-collegiate professional running career.

She may be a superhuman on the track, but she is also very human, having suffered frustrating injuries and setbacks that kept her from having the running career that she truly desired.

But, just like the rest of us, she was inspired by the 2016 Rio Olympic triathlon. She loved watching the build-up to that race and decided to give the sport a go knowing it would provide a new outlet for athletics and beneficial cross-training.

Today, she’s just a couple of years into her professional career and in the process of writing history. Chelsea landed on the podium in both of her 70.3 races in 2018, including an overall win at Indian Wells 70.3.

She opens up with Matt today on her past and the valuable lessons that triathlon has brought into her life. She also discusses:

Her Key Ingredients for Successful Training
Non-negotiable habits in her life
The Value of Good Coaching on her career
Advice on Searching for the Right Coach
Highlights of Attending Camp
Rookie Mistakes at Races

And finally, Chelsea shares what success in the sport of triathlon will look like for her.

Her answer may surprise you. Or maybe not. It is an intimate coaching moment with Matt that resonates across all performance levels.

Best of luck, Chelsea. Your Purple Patch fans are cheering for your success!

To learn more about Chelsea Sodaro follow her on:

Instagram

Transition Four Site

Transcript

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0:00.0	I'm Matt Dixon and welcome to the Purple Patch podcast.
0:03.5	The mission of Purple Patch is to empower and educate every human being to reach their athletic potential.
0:09.3	Through the lens of athletic potential, you reach your human potential.
0:13.3	The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people everywhere in a great sport into life.
0:19.7	And welcome to the Purple Patch podcast.
0:22.8	As ever, your host Matt Dixon.
0:25.7	And this week, we're going to go back to a previously recorded episode, a conversation
0:30.2	with Chelsea Sedaro, a wonderful woman and a pretty good athlete too.
0:35.3	But why are we going back to Chelsea?
0:38.9	She's a Purple Patch Pro, that's interesting. But why are we going back to Chelsea? She's a purple patch pro.
0:44.5	That's interesting. But let me give you some context. This last weekend, we had a big weekend for us. It was Ironman Senaroza 70.3, the closest thing we really have to our home race. And we managed to
0:51.6	secure wins and great performances with Sam Appleton winning the male pro race,
0:56.7	long-time purple patch athlete Sarah Komedo winning the overall amateur female race,
1:01.1	and today's guest, Chelsea, taking the win in the female pro race.
1:05.9	She scorched a 116 half-marathon split off the bike there.
1:10.1	Bully for us, you might say.
1:12.4	But there's real context and lessons in Chelsea's story.
1:16.7	And so I decided to bring back the conversation.
1:19.7	You see, to provide a little history since about December of 2018,
1:24.6	so about eight months ago,
1:26.7	Chelsea's navigated a long-term injury standing from both
1:29.4	biomechanical and muscular skeletal weaknesses that really required long-term intervention
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