#9 Finding Strength in Weakness at Badwater 135

Choose Strong

Choose Strong with Sally and Eddie McRae

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🗓️ 19 July 2022

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

The World's Toughest Footrace starts at Badwater Basin in California, 282 feet below sea level and travels 135 miles, over 3 mountain passes; ending at Mount Whitney Portal (the entrance to the tallest mountain in the lower 48 States). The race is known for it's extreme heat and harsh conditions with temperatures reaching close to 130F. Over a decade ago, Sally crafted a goal for herself to win the race, which she did after her second attempt in 2021. In 2018 and 2021, Sally endured constant challenges and setbacks throughout the race, which she often describes as "lessons in strength training." Having achieved her goal in 2021, Sally decided to head back to the race with a goal greater than a podium finish.

In this podcast, Sally and I sit down to break down her reason for returning to Badwater; the role the race played in the Choose Strong Project; and how after 3 finishes, the race continues to not only humble her as an athlete but reveal to her what she is capable of accomplishing despite discomfort and setbacks.

We dive into the lead up to the race; her training; goals; and the glimmer of hope she held after the first 50 miles of the race to run the course faster than her two previous attempts. We talk about the surprising, unique challenge that popped up in the race and how she handled it and we discuss the overwhelming realization of walking the final 70 miles to get to the Finish line in 35 hours.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Chew Strong podcast. I am your host, Sally McCrae, and I am joined again by my husband.
0:09.1	Eddie McCrae is back.
0:12.2	And for those you that are listening, you're not watching us on YouTube right now.
0:16.9	Eddie and I are sitting on a screen side by side, and I'm really stoked that we get to do video today.
0:24.4	That people get to see your handsome face.
0:26.9	And if you're listening and you're getting jealous, you're like, oh, my gosh, I need to watch this.
0:30.2	You totally should because the live show that we're doing right now is it's just a little extra, a little extra for you.
0:41.5	Yes, extra. So you can find this show on youtube um eddie set up the channel a choose strong podcast channel and we try to do a video i'd say for all
0:49.1	of them i think a few of them have like a placeholder but um that's something that we're hoping to
0:53.9	expand upon
0:55.5	in the future. So I'm really excited for today because today's topic, for those of you that
1:01.5	are tuning in, you tuned in because you wanted to hear about the first race and the Choose Strong
1:06.6	Project, Badwater, 135. So we're going to dive in today and talk about all things
1:14.8	surrounding the race. And I'm so happy that Eddie is here with me because being on the crew
1:21.3	now for a second year in the row, he has a completely different viewpoint perspective and also
1:27.1	inside of stuff going on in the
1:28.7	crew car and conversation that I don't know about and that I'm not a part of.
1:32.7	And I've always talked about how Badwater is very much a team effort.
1:39.5	If you're going to move fast through the desert, you need a team with you.
1:43.0	So I'm just excited that Eddie's going to share
1:46.6	some insight there. But also Eddie, I feel like every year that I do this race even in 2018
1:53.8	when you weren't able to be out there, that the crew always shares with me stories that I either
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