Sabrina Stanley has been a force on the trails since she first discovered ultra-running nearly 10 years ago. In that time, she rose quickly from beginner to champion - landing wins, podiums, and course records at some of the most competitive and well known races in the world.
(Western States, Hurt 100, Hardrock, Grand Raid, and UTMB just to name a few.)
From the outside looking in, you would never know that while achieving impressive results on paper, she'd been privately dealing with misdiagnosed mystery pain since 2021.
In this episode, Lauren and Sabrina discuss that injury in depth: from the literal and figurative pain she was enduring, the toll on her running but also her mental health, ultimately receiving a concrete diagnosis and surgical repair, her choice to keep all of this private (until now), and how the experience has changed her as a person, an athlete, and a competitor.
Spoiler alert: she's fresh off a seventh place finish at UTMB 2024, a full 90 minutes faster than her 2023 ninth place finish... and just getting started from a new launching point!
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