77: Mario Fraioli - Break Through That Wall

C Tolle Run

Running, Health & Fitness, Fitness, Sports

4.7 • 557 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Carrie interviews Mario Fraioil! Mario discusses how he got started writing, his passion for coaching, and the importance of fueling your body.

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Mario Fraioli

Mario is a Bay Area-based running coach, writer, and podcast host. As a coach, he has guided athletes to personal bests, Boston Marathon qualifying times, national championship titles, Olympic Trials appearances, international podiums, world championship teams, national records, and even the Olympic Games. He also publishes the morning shakeout—a weekly email newsletter that covers running and other worthwhile topics—and hosts the podcast of the same name. Mario was the senior editor at Competitor magazine from 2010-2016. His work has also appeared in Running Times, New England Runner, Triathlete, and other publications. In 2013, he authored his first book, The Official Rock ‘n’ Roll Guide To Marathon & Half- Marathon Training. As an athlete, Mario was an NCAA Division II cross-country All-American at Stonehill College in 2003 and has raced competitively from the 800 meters to ultramarathon distances. He has personal bests including 4:09 for the mile, 2:28 in the marathon, and 7:59 for 50 miles. A native of Massachusetts, Mario spent a few years in San Diego, and currently lives north of the Golden Gate Bridge with his wife Christine, their four bikes, and dozens of pairs of running shoes.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Olympian Carrie Tullifson and welcome to the C-Tolly Run podcast.
0:11.6	Today I'm interviewing Mario Frioli.
0:14.0	Mario is a coach and the creator of the Morning Shakeout, a weekly running podcast and email newsletter.
0:19.9	In this episode, Mario talks about coaching, training, his podcast, and his personal struggle with eating.
0:26.2	All athletes need to hear his important message about fueling properly.
0:29.9	Let's get after it.
0:33.8	Thanks so much for joining us on C-Tal-I-R-On, Mario.
0:36.7	I'm super excited to talk to you. Thanks so much for having me. Yeah-Tal Iran, Mario. I'm super excited to talk to you.
0:38.9	Thanks so much for having me.
0:40.0	Yeah, so you have been pretty busy. I mean, I love every Tuesday morning getting the morning shakeout from you, but you've been doing a lot of other things. So we just want to learn all about you and hear about your new podcast and things like that. So let's talk about the website because a lot of people, you know, still
0:55.1	associate you with competitor when you're doing some things with them. But now you're sort of all
0:59.9	on your own, right? Yeah, I work for myself as a coach and writer, but I was at competitor
1:06.2	magazine and slash.com for six years, six and a half years. So most of my work is still on thecom
1:15.1	website. What's funny is they have a new web editor now. I don't really know her that well.
1:20.4	And I got just an email from her a couple weeks ago. And it was along the lines of, hey, I see
1:26.3	your name on the site a lot. Would you still like to
1:28.8	write for us? I'm like, yeah, no, probably not. Yeah, you do your own thing. Yeah, I just do my own
1:34.5	thing, but yeah, I've written a lot of stuff on that site. That's fun. And how did you get into
1:38.2	that job? I mean, you ran, obviously. So was it just the natural transition from college to you know being in the real world
1:45.8	natural is not the right adjective to use so yeah I've been running for about 21 years now since
1:54.5	high school and when you know I got out of college I had degree, but I had no idea what I wanted to do.
2:01.5	I just knew that I wanted to do something in running.
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