04 - Health First Approach to Recovery - Sonja Weick

Science of Sports Recovery

Health First Approach to RecoverySummary: Sonja Wieck (w-ick) underwent a life transformation taking her from an average stay-at-home mom to a World-Class Ironman triathlete. She is a 6x Kona Ironman World Championship Qualifier, came in 2nd place at Kona Ironman World Female 35-39 age group (2015), was named the Ironman All World Female 35-39 Champion (2013), Tokyo’s Joe’s Athlete of the Month (2014). She can be seen leading her group of 3 men on Team Iron Cowboy on Mark Burnett’s new competition show “https://ecochallenge.com/ (World’s Toughest Race Eco-Challenge Fiji)” hosted by Bear Grylls premiered on Amazon Prime on August 14, 2020. (If you haven’t watched this yet. You need to) She now has a podcast of her own sharing the untold stories of the athletes that participated in that event. (https://gosonja.com/podcast (Tales of Toughness)) And if that’s not all she’s also an Ultramarathoner, she’s ran the Grand Canyon Rim to Rim in 12 hours, was named the Moab 100 mile Female Champion and 2nd overall (2010) and believe me there are more achievements but I don’t want to keep you waiting for our conversation any longer! We chat about how she has grown up fearless, her health first approach to recovery, her favorite tools for recovery and much much more. Sonja Weick's Information: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gosonja/ (https://www.instagram.com/gosonja/) Website: https://gosonja.com/ (https://gosonja.com/) Tales of Toughness Podcast: https://gosonja.com/podcast (https://gosonja.com/podcast) Jase Kraft's Information: Instagram: https://instagram.com/jaecheese (https://instagram.com/jaecheese) Website: https://scienceofsportsrecovery.com/ (https://scienceofsportsrecovery.com) Email:https://my.captivate.fm/[e-mail] ( [e-mail] ) Jase Kraft: [00:02:18] Hey Sonja, it's great to have you on the podcast. Sonja Weick: [00:02:32] Hey, Jase, I'm so, so stoke that you asked me to. Come on. I'm excited to be here. I'm honored and thankful. So thanks for having me. Jase Kraft: [00:02:39] Awesome wow that. That's quite the range of emotions. So I'm excited. I'm excited to talk to somebody that I watch for ten episodes on a season. That and honestly, I had to borrow somebody else's Amazon Prime because I don't have it. But I was like, I need to see this show. So but I wanted to start off this conversation kind of taking you back to pre athletics for you in your in your podcast that you have tales of toughness. You talk about that you got into running because you were afraid of balls and just kind of love the freedom that I got to you. But what made you, like, go out on that first run? I mean, that's not something that. Sonja Weick: [00:03:29] Oh, my gosh. Jase Kraft: [00:03:30] I'm going to go run. Sonja Weick: [00:03:32] I know it's. Gosh, yes. You know, I think since I've been little, what's always got me, what's always been in my blood and in my DNA is adventure. I remember even being like a little kid and we had property and I was always adventuring around the property and climbing all the trees and I had a dog in tow. And so there was this sense of exploration that's always been deep inside of my little heart. And I remember. In middle schools trying to run the mile and seeing that I was the fastest girl in the school and kind of getting a little bit of like a school attitude about it, and then I remember one day thinking, you know what, I'm gonna I think runners train like they go and they run. And I took off from my house and I ran and I ran and I ran. And I think later I went and had my mom drive it and I had run six miles all around the neighborhood. But all I remember was I was really tired. That was exhausting. But I got so far from home because you get like three miles from home when you're in middle school and you think you're on another planet. And that sense of having, like, my own two little feet get me that...