Why Not Me | Crewing the Cocodona 250 in Arizona

About this episode

The episode discusses the hosts' anniversary celebration and their unexpected experience crewing for the Cocodona 250 ultramarathon in Arizona.

We celebrated our anniversary on a Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. By Monday we were following a 250+ mile foot race through the Arizona backcountry. We didn't plan that week. It turned out to be one of the best we've had. We're back on the road, and this episode is the catch-up we owe you. We talk about what it felt like to go home, what we fixed, what we decided to keep, and why we're not selling the house after all. Then the episode goes somewhere we didn't see coming: a 253-mile ultramarathon through central Arizona, a brother-in-law who'd been training for a year, a crew of unpaid people who showed up with their whole hearts, and a 34-year-old woman who made history by becoming the first person ever to win the Cocodona 250 outright. And somewhere in the middle of all of it, a quiet realization: the things we really want have a way of arriving. Just not always in the shape we expected. What You'll Hear in This Episode: What it felt like to go home after months on the road, and the surprisingly emotional decision to stop talking about selling the house The solar panel upgrade that changed everything (and the folding panel that quietly gave out) How we ended up crewing for a…

People in this episode

Hosts: James Kerouac, Cara Kerouac

Guest: Rachel Entrekin

Topics covered

• ultramarathon
• anniversary
• homecoming
• crewing
• personal growth
• Arizona

Keywords

• Cocodona 250
• ultramarathon
• Arizona
• Rachel Entrekin
• homecoming
• crewing
• adventure

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Arizona

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