Sally Edwards - The Courage to Finish Last
Run to the Top Podcast | The Ultimate Guide to Running
RunnersConnect: Coaching Community, Running Experts, Inspiring Runners, No Fluff Blog
4.5 • 936 Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2018
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Sally Edwards is a running pioneer who has carried the fitness torch since the early 70's.
The 70's was the beginning of her career as an exceptional athlete and an astute business woman, dedicated always to the credo that fitness is a way of life.
From Western States to the Olympic Trials, to snowshoeing 24 hours continuously in Alaska, and many more accomplishments as a business woman and extreme athlete/runner Sally has a great story to share and the fact that she had "the courage to finish last" is just one of many interesting facets to her life.
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| 0:00.0 | On today's Run to the Top Podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | I swam the last swimmer and I bike the last biker and I ran with the last runner. |
| 0:10.0 | I was just overwhelmed with their stories of what it took to get to the starting line of one of the scariest things they've ever done, which is swim in open water and ride a bike, you know, really fast. |
| 0:20.0 | It doesn't matter where you come in the race. It matters that you're participating. |
| 0:25.0 | Welcome to the Run to the Top Podcast from Runners Connect, where it's all about learning from |
| 0:31.0 | the best and most inspiring minds in the sport. |
| 0:35.0 | Together, we can train a smarter, healthier, and faster running community. |
| 0:41.0 | Now here's your host, Stephanie Kay Atwood. |
| 0:45.0 | Welcome, this is Stephanie K Atwood, Boston Marathon Qualifier, coach, and host for the Run to the |
| 0:51.8 | top podcast. On today's podcast, our guest and host for the Run to the Top Podcast. |
| 0:53.0 | On today's podcast, our guest is Sally Edwards. |
| 0:56.6 | Active and athletic from childhood on, |
| 0:59.2 | Sally Edwards has championed fitness all her life. |
| 1:02.4 | Sally has won races at distances from one mile to a hundred miles and in 1984 |
| 1:08.0 | she competed in the Olympic marathon trials. She has competed in 16 Iron Man Triathlons, the Western States 100, and the |
| 1:17.5 | grueling 360-mile Echo Challenge adventure race, just to name a few. |
| 1:23.2 | There is so much substance to this woman |
| 1:25.3 | and way more than just running in her history. |
| 1:28.5 | Stay tuned to learn more about her, |
| 1:30.9 | a woman who has dedicated her life to fitness, and is still making it happen every day. |
| 1:36.0 | Welcome to the Run to the Top Podcast, Sally. |
| 1:39.0 | Thank you, Stephanie. It's great to be here from Sacramento, California. |
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