Choose Strong

Thank you for listening to our show! We are so grateful that you CHOOSE to listen.

Listen to this episode to see how you can be entered in our giveaway, to say THANK YOU.

Other Episode Highlights:

• Sally talks weather - again
• Giveaway to say thank you
• Bears & World Record talk
• Brick by Brick challenge update
• Consistency is how you lay the foundation for endurance 
• Peanut M&Ms & Chocolate bordeaux in December
• Choose Strong Community Highlights
• Running in snow & sand 
• The power of mobility
• Race planning for the new year
• Making an ‘A’ goal that scares you 
• 50k chatter 

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What are you waiting for? Are you waiting for the perfect time? The perfect skill? Are you afraid of what might happen if you start and something goes wrong?

As you listen to this episode, be encouraged and even challenged to start whatever you have been dragging your feet to do. We share stories of starting things without knowing how it will turn out. Hopefully you will be inspired to START. You only get one life and you're only promised today - why not start!?

Listen along as you run your local Turkey Trot, 5k, or on your long drive to Uncle Larry's for some turkey! This Thanksgiving Edition episode will make you laugh and get you thinking about what YOU are grateful for.

We are so thankful for YOU who listen to us each week. Thank you & Happy Thanksgiving!

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Join us as we chat about different seasons of parenting, why Sally isn't allowed to visit Makenzie at college anymore, why your feet hurt during ultras and much more! Thanks for listening. We love and appreciate you all.

Fresh off her course record at Javelina 100, Tara Dower joins Sally in a great conversation! Enjoy!

Other Episode Highlights:

• 40 days 18 hours 6 min to break the AT FKT in 2024

• Growing up playing soccer & rugby in college 

• Gained mental toughness from a drill sergeant in the army (her brother)
• Inspired by a documentary in college - Appalachian Trail thru hikers in 2013
• Anxiety attack in 2017
• 2019 through hiked Appalachian Trail
• From chasing a title to enjoying the journey on the AT
• 5 months and 10 days - first time in 2019 thru hiking
• Cheez its and gushers for nutrition!
• Candy Mama nickname origination
• Mountains to Sea 1,175 miles
• First 100 mile race in 2021
• The meaning of Tara
• DNF at Mammoth helped her prepare for Javelina

• Javelina 100 Recap

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