Re-Run with Chelsea Sodaro

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Coaching, Marathons, Sports, Olympics, Running, Ultrarunning

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🗓️ 6 December 2022

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

This week I’m re-running a conversation I had over three years ago with Chelsea Sodaro, who recently won the Ironman World Championships in Kona. When this episode originally went live in April of 2019, Chelsea hadn’t done an Ironman yet and she wasn’t even a household name in triathlon at the time. Nor was she a mom, which is a big part of what made her most recent victory so special and impressive.

In this conversation, we talked about how Chelsea got into running—for those of you who don’t know, before she was a champion triathlete, Chelsea was a world-class runner and a two-time national champion on the roads and track—why she transitioned into triathlon, and where she gets her competitive drive from. Chelsea told me how she’s dealt with injury throughout her career and the special relationship she has with Olympian Magdalena Boulet. We also discussed why she felt so alone and empty immediately after winning her first triathlon, the advice she’d give her younger self, and a lot more.

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0:00.0	A lot of us endurance athletes are obsessive and one of the things that makes us good is that
0:12.4	we're able to focus on the very small details of our craft and spend a lot of time concentrating
0:19.2	on improving those things.
0:21.5	On the flip side it's pretty easy to get too bogged down in the weeds and we can have
0:27.1	a hard time stepping back and releasing the big picture of a progression, right?
0:32.4	Which is something that happens over a long period of time, not something that we can
0:37.0	expect to happen in a matter of weeks or months or even like a year or two and I think that's
0:41.6	something that I've gotten into a little bit of trouble probably in the past.
0:57.1	Hey, what's up everyone, I'm your host Mario Freole and this week I'm re-running a conversation
1:09.2	that I had over three years ago with Chelsea Sadaro who recently won the Iron Man World
1:14.8	Championships in Kona.
1:17.0	When this episode originally went live in April of 2019, Chelsea hadn't done an Iron
1:22.1	Man yet and she wasn't even a household name in triathlon at the time.
1:27.0	Before was she a mom which is a big part of what made her most recent victory so special
1:31.6	and impressive.
1:33.0	In this conversation we talked about how Chelsea got into running for those of you who don't
1:37.6	know before she was a champion triathlete, Chelsea was a world class runner and a two-time
1:42.3	national champion on the road and track.
1:45.0	We also talked about why she transitioned into triathlon, where she gets her competitive
1:49.6	drive from, how she's dealt with injury throughout her career, the special relationship
1:54.7	that she has with Olympian Magdalena Boulay, why she felt so alone and empty immediately
2:00.2	after winning her first triathlon, the advice that she'd give her younger self and a lot
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