Coach Sally McRae answers the hard questions
Trail Runner Nation
Trail Runner Nation
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2013
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Sally McRae joins us to talk about the most common questions and issues she is asked by the athletes she coaches:
- How do I deal with injuries?
- How much do I need to run?
- What about Cross Training?
- Nutrition?
- Why are you the "yellow runner"?
- How do you balance being a Mom, business owner, coach and STILL find time for your personal training?
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| 0:00.0 | Today's tailwind tip of the trail comes from Dominic Grossman, mountain runner extraordinaire. |
| 0:11.9 | What do you got, Dominic? |
| 0:13.9 | When I started running with Fourier Pacheco, who is a very accomplished runner, he would |
| 0:21.0 | just beat the heck out of me on runs on the Angeles Crest course at 9,000 feet. |
| 0:25.7 | He'd be really calm and cool, and I'd be just, you know, second-wind, and he told me, |
| 0:30.9 | no, don't worry, everyone feels his way, and I realized that, you know, maybe that day |
| 0:38.4 | when he's going easy with me, and he was taking the time to, you know, show me the course, |
| 0:43.2 | it was easy for him, but on race day, everyone from the start to the back suffers. |
| 0:48.2 | The first place guys trying to push the pace and trying to, you know, hold on to first, |
| 0:52.8 | the last place person is trying to beat cutoffs, the middle of the pack persons, you know, |
| 0:57.3 | doing their best, and everyone's having bad moments. So, you're never really alone in the sport, |
| 1:02.7 | you're always suffering with someone else, somewhere along the course, maybe you're in first, |
| 1:07.9 | maybe you're in the aspect, it doesn't matter, you're all, you're all feeling the same thing. |
| 1:12.3 | That's a great perspective to have. |
| 1:13.7 | That's, that's Hori Pacheco, that's, he doesn't, you know, come across as, you know, |
| 1:21.5 | super talkative, but he's a very smart runner. |
| 1:25.5 | Join us for more Tailwind Tip of the Trails on future podcasts, or go to Tailwind Nutrition and |
| 1:32.1 | take the Tailwind Challenge at Tailwindnutrition.com. |
| 1:36.7 | A Petzel nighttime running strategy tip from Petzel Headlamps. Scott, Scott, you actually have |
| 1:47.7 | a, a night running tip for you. I do. Actually, you know, most high-powered Lumen headlamps, |
| 1:54.7 | the ones that you want to be using out on the trail at night, wait a minute, Scott, it sounds |
| 1:58.3 | to me like you've done a little bit of research and you have some knowledge to drop on us because |
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