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Discussions of the intersection of the art and science of running.
Episode 18: Matt Fitzgerald, Running the Dream, 80/20 Running, Running By Feel, Racing Weight, Life is a Marathon, How Bad Do You Want It, and more.
The Art and Science of Running
1 hour 15 minutes
5 years ago
Episode 18: Matt Fitzgerald, Running the Dream, 80/20 Running, Running By Feel, Racing Weight, Life is a Marathon, How Bad Do You Want It, and more.
Imagine spending your adult life training, racing, coaching, and writing about running. In fact, imagine writing more books about running and nutrition than any of your contemporaries only to be stuck in a plateau with your own training and racing, thinking that the time to had improve might have passed you by. And then, imagine a perfect set-up with one of the top training groups in the country for you to live and train with the best in an effort to go all-in and see if you can crack a 13 year old marathon PR.
That’s exactly what runner and prolific author, Matt Fitzgerald, did in the summer of 2016 when he lived and trained as a masters athlete with the athletes at NAZ Elite under Coach Ben Rosario.
In this episode, we speak with Matt Fitzgerald about his experience training with this group of elite athletes half his age, what he learned, and what he feels other runners can glean from what he learned while living and training amongst some of the best aspiring runners in the Unites States.
In addition to what Matt learned as a master’s athlete with athletes training to compete on the world’s largest marathon stages, we discuss and suggest some of Matt’s other work, notably:
