Episode 477: Cocodona 250 Ultra Champ | Rachel Entrekin
Human Performance Outliers Podcast with Zach Bitter
Zach Bitter
4.8 • 622 Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2026
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Rachel Entrekin is a 2x Cocodona Champion, and course record holder. She joined me for an in-depth interview discussing her transition to professional running, training methods, multi-day race strategy, and the evolution of ultrarunning.
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| 0:00.0 | whatever reason, I don't know if it's like an America thing or what, but like we don't really |
| 0:03.8 | ever talk about salary in any context. And that doesn't, that hurts the workers. Like, |
| 0:10.9 | that hurts people in business and that hurts athletes trying to figure out how to navigate what |
| 0:15.6 | a reasonable contract is worth. I'm a huge, I'm a huge proponent of the multi-day live stream or |
| 0:20.6 | any race live stream. |
| 0:22.6 | Because at the end of the day, football is a multi-billion dollar corporation because it's televised. |
| 0:29.6 | People can watch it. There's advertisement. And I'm not saying that I want trail running to get there. |
| 0:34.6 | But if we are trying to give athletes a salary, like, that has |
| 0:40.3 | to come from somewhere. And I don't want it to be because we're getting that money from, like, |
| 0:46.5 | amateur runners necessarily. But, like, we need fans of the sport that aren't participating. |
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