Episode 28 | Sarah Sellers

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Coaching, Marathons, Sports, Olympics, Running, Ultrarunning

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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"My goal isn't to garner more media attention or to shock the world or to even top Boston. My goal is to keep the love of the sport, to stay healthy, and to continue chipping away at times because ultimately I think [that] kind of like Des Linden has shown the world, if you are able to stay healthy and train consistently for a long period of time, that's where you get really good."Stoked to have Sarah Sellers on the podcast this week! The 27-year-old Sellers, who works as a nurse anesthetist in Arizona, was the surprise second-place finisher at April's Boston Marathon, running a personal-best of 2:44:04 in cold, windy, wet conditions. Sellers, who took home $75,000 for her efforts, didn't realize she was the runner-up until after she crossed the finish line.In this conversation, we talked a bit about what's changed for her since Boston while looking ahead to her next big race, the New York City Marathon on November 4. We also discussed whether or not she's felt an added layer of pressure after her breakthrough performance at Boston, how she's learned to move on from bad races, where her mental toughness comes from, injuries and the changes she's made to her training and lifestyle in order to stay healthy, defining herself as more than just a "runner," balancing training at a high level with working a demanding hospital job, the importance of the support system she surrounds herself with, and a lot more.Music and editing for this episode of the morning shakeout podcast by John Summerford at BaresRecords.comComplete show notes here: https://www.themorningshakeout.com/podcast-episode-28-with-sarah-sellers/Sign up here to get the morning shakeout email newsletter delivered to your inbox every Tuesday morning: www.themorningshakeout.com/subscribe/Support the morning shakeout on Patreon: www.patreon.com/themorningshakeout

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0:00.0	That's not my goal. Like my goal isn't to garner more media attention or to shock the world or to even top Boston. Like my goal is to keep the love of the sports, to stay healthy,
0:14.1	and to continue chipping away at times.
0:17.4	Because ultimately, I think kind of like
0:21.2	does Linden has really shown the world like if you are able to stay healthy and
0:27.2	train consistently for a long period of time that's where you get really good.
0:31.5	That's Sarah Sellers, and this is episode 28 of the Morning Shakeout Podcast.
0:37.0	I'm your host, Mario Freoli, and this week we've got the surprise second place finisher from the Boston Marathon in April where a lot of people, myself included, were asking who is Sarah Sellers after she crossed the finish line on Boilsen Street.
0:52.0	And we're not going to try to answer that question here today. It's already been done ad nauseum. Instead, we're going to dig into what she's been up to since then, how her life has changed, what she's got coming up this fall, talked about training, injuries,
1:05.0	nutrition, all kinds of good stuff that I think you'll take a lot away from.
1:09.0	So without further ado, please enjoy my conversation with Sarah Sellers.
1:14.0	Sarah Sellers, welcome to the Morning Shakeout Podcast.
1:25.0	Thank you so much for having me on.
1:27.0	Are you tired of talking about Boston yet?
1:30.0	No, but I am excited to be like training for New York now and be able to talk about that openly.
1:39.2	So I kind of like looking forward more than looking back, but I think Boston is so exciting.
1:44.0	Yeah, we'll look back in a little bit here, but let's look forward to New York.
1:48.0	You recently just, well, I shouldn't say just committed, but it was just announced that you committed to the race
1:54.1	when did you decide that you wanted to run New York and what was the impetus behind that decision?
2:02.1	Yeah, I think it's about a month and a half ago, actually maybe two months ago that I decided on New York
2:09.9	and kind of knew that I wanted to do a big marathon in the fall and I think the
2:16.4	course at New York placed my strengths. I mean we'll see I don't really know.
2:20.0	Yeah but I think just feeling kind of a tougher course. I think that'll be good for the way I run marathons.
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