Sally McRae

Sally McRae is an American ultramarathon and trail runner, author, coach, speaker and podcast host. She is known for winning the Badwater 135 in 2021, finishing seventh overall in Death Valley, and for winning the Moab 240 in 2023 in 86 hours, 18 minutes and 33 seconds. That year she completed a series of four races of 200 miles or more, the Cocodona 250, Tahoe 200, Bigfoot 200 and Moab 240, which drew wide attention in endurance-running media. She won the women's race at Mozart 100 by UTMB in Salzburg in 2019, has run Western States and Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc, and returned from injury in 2026 to finish Cocodona 250. She wrote the memoir Choose Strong and co-hosts a podcast of the same name.