Is 2025 the year you shoot your shot and get out of your comfort zone? 💪
Colleen MacDonald is an ultra and trail runner specializing in the 50 mile and 100 mile distances. Based in Colorado and Minnesota, Colleen is known for her unshakable grit and love of flying down technical descents.
Colleen and Angie talked about:
- Why competition is a positive aspect of sports
- How running helped her adjust after living and working abroad
- Identity, self-worth, and ego in ultra running
- Why athletes need white space in training and life
- Colleen’s attempts at the challenging Superior 100 in Minnesota
- Post-race blues and processing race performances
- Why YOU should go shoot your shot
Send this episode to a friend who loves to run or who has a race in 2025.
Follow along Colleen's adventures: https://colleenmacdonaldathlete.com/
Want to join Colleen as a Trailblazer with The Cairn Project and turn a 2025 adventure into a campaign to get more women outdoors? Learn more at cairnproject.org/trailblazers.
You can help us close the gender gap outdoors and beyond:
- Become a 2025 Trailblazer. Like Colleen, you can make a difference for girls and women who want transformative outdoor experiences.
- Check out the Summit Scholarship Foundation.
- Share this episode with a friend or family member.
Popular Podcasts
Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
Ding dong! Join your culture consultants, Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, on an unforgettable journey into the beating heart of CULTURE. Alongside sizzling special guests, they GET INTO the hottest pop-culture moments of the day and the formative cultural experiences that turned them into Culturistas. Produced by the Big Money Players Network and iHeartRadio.
The Joe Rogan Experience
The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.