Welcome to the Runners Connect, Run to the Top Podcast, where it's all about learning from the best minds in the sport

so you can train smarter, stay healthy, and run faster now.

And now your host, Tina Muir.

Hello, this is Tina Muir

and I would like to welcome you to another episode

of the Runners Connect Run to the Top Podcast.

Before we reintroduced the podcast,

founder Jeff Gaudette and I created a survey

for our subscribers to give their feedback

on how it could improve the podcast,

and also what you would like to see in the future of the podcast.

I have listened to your responses and tried to reach out to as many of the guests as possible.

Of course a few patterns emerged within the survey and we found some guests were requested over and over again.

However, the guests that was by far the most popular was my guest today.

This confused me a little at first and he'd actually already been on the podcast twice.

It was only once I listened to his two episodes that I could see why.

He was absolutely fascinating, and such a pioneer within our running world.

I loved his approach, and he is the kind of person that you could go to a lecture listening to and actually enjoy listening to what they have to say. I then knew I had to bring him back on the show. Not only did you want him, but now I had all these questions that I wanted to ask. I was sure you would be curious about them too.

My guest today is Matt Fitzgerald.

Matt is the author of over 20 books including racing weight, brain training for runners, diet cults,

and most recently his 80-20 running book. You'll also hear about what he has planned for the end of the year.

He is also a writer for a number of publications including men's fitness, men's health, outside shape, stuff and women's health.

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