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🗓️ 18 August 2021
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Sally is a professional ultrarunner for Nike currently living in Bend, OR. She's a fan favorite in the sport and one of the most requested guests for the podcast, so it was great to chat. Sally is just coming off a win at the legendary Badwater 135 -- one of the toughest ultramarathons in the world. We go deep on the story of Sally's preparation for the race, what she learned from her first attempt in 2018, and how she navigated low moments on race day to achieve a 10-year dream to win the race. This one is packed full of great insights and lessons!
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0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, what is up? How is it going? I hope you're having an awesome week. Welcome to the Pillars podcast and another |
0:22.7 | really great episode that I'm very excited to share with you. Of course, I am your host, Dylan Bowman. |
0:28.8 | And this week, I am joined by one of the most requested guests in podcast history. And also, |
0:36.0 | this year's Badwater Champion. That's right, the incredibly inspiring |
0:40.7 | and impressive Sally McCrae is in the building for her first appearance on the show. We recorded |
0:47.7 | this episode a couple of weeks ago. And of course, we focused the bulk of our discussion on |
0:52.5 | Badwater, but we also used that race and Sally's experience there |
0:57.8 | to talk about more philosophical aspects of our sport, |
1:02.1 | as you'll hear, even though Sally was victorious, |
1:05.0 | it didn't come easy, it was far from perfect, |
1:07.9 | and she does a great job of distilling the lessons that she learned |
1:12.1 | into words that you all can learn from and get inspired by as well. We talk about the power of |
1:18.4 | being grateful, of being courageous. We talk about dealing with adversity on the fly during |
1:24.4 | the course of the race. We talk about Sally's experience with motherhood and how |
1:29.2 | important it is to share her journey with her children and her family as well. We talk about |
1:35.0 | chasing our dreams over a long period of time and many, many other things. Sally is so great. |
1:41.0 | Her energy is infectious. She's so great at storytelling. She's super inspiring. |
1:46.3 | I think you guys are going to really enjoy this conversation. And before we get to it, |
1:50.0 | I just want to say a huge thank you from the bottom of my heart to those of you who responded |
1:55.4 | to my call for support in last week's episode. I received a ton of really cool messages |
2:01.1 | from many of you, |
2:02.6 | from people who have taken similar leaps of faith |
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