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Hi, I'm Olympian Kerry Tullifson and welcome to the Sea Talley Run podcast.

Today I'm honored to sit down with Matt Futterman.

He's the deputy sports editor of the New York Times.

He's an author, a runner, a father, and an all-around fun guy to chat with.

In this episode, Matt and I chat about his new book, about his training for the Bank of America's Chicago Marathon,

about his career and favorite moments in athletics,

his love of our sport, and so much more. So let's get after it. I'm super excited to have Matt

Futterman on C. Tully Run. I have read his book. I am really just thrilled to be able to chat with you

because you love the sport

and you are the editor of one of the most major newspapers out there, the New York Times. And I just

think it's so fun that you want to bring the sport to life and you do it in such a great way. So

thank you for coming on, Cotli Ron. Thanks for having me. It's great to,

it's great to talk to runners. That's been one of the great pleasures of this book is just sort of

going around the country and communing with the running community and being able to talk running

in life, which is what I do anyway. So it sort of doesn't even feel like work. It's great. Now, I should say you gave me a big promotion there. You said I'm the editor of the editor of the editor of the newspaper. I'm definitely not the editor of the New York Times. Yeah, I'm the deputy sports editor. There you go. I was going to come back. I was like, I was like, your author,

but to give you

your formal title,

it's the deputy sports

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