Episode 63 | Nicholas Thompson

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Coaching, Marathons, Sports, Olympics, Running, Ultrarunning

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

“The great thing about running is: it’s all you. If your team does better in soccer, it might be you, it might be your team. You could actually get worse and your team could get better, but if you are getting faster at running, it’s you, so the improvement feels pretty intensely emotional, and that drew me in.” I’m excited to share a special live recording of the podcast that I did with Nicholas Thompson, the editor-in-chief of Wired magazine, in front of a live audience last month in Boston. In this conversation, we spoke exclusively about aging and the marathon, which is a topic he’s written about for Wired. Last fall, Thompson—who is 43 years old—ran not one, but two 2:38 marathons at Chicago and New York, only 4 weeks apart, both faster than his previous personal best of 2:43. We recorded this episode at Tracksmith’s Trackhouse the day before this year’s Boston Marathon, where he finished in 2:34:27, a new personal best, running a nice negative split (which, if you’ve run Boston, you know is not easy to do). This episode is only about 35 minutes long but Thompson has agreed to come back on another time so we can dig deeper into the role running plays in his life, talk about his journalism career, learn about his love of music, and much more.This episode is brought to you by Tracksmith. Tracksmith is an independent running brand based in Boston. They’re a group of dedicated runners focused on building technical yet understated running apparel that celebrates the amateur spirit and inspires the personal pursuit of excellence.   Tracksmith’s products reflect their New England roots: These are classic, understated and high quality essentials for runners who are working towards their next PR. To learn more, visit tracksmith.com/mario. Follow them on Instagram @tracksmithrunning and shop at tracksmith.com.Complete show notes: https://www.themorningshakeout.com/podcast-episode-63-with-nicholas-thompson/Sign up here to get the morning shakeout email newsletter delivered to your inbox every Tuesday morning: www.themorningshakeout.com/subscribe/Support the morning shakeout on Patreon: www.patreon.com/themorningshakeout

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0:00.0	The great thing about running is it's all you, right? If your team does better in
0:05.1	soccer it might be you, it might be your team. Like you could actually get worse and
0:08.3	your team can get better, but if you are getting faster at running it's you. So
0:12.1	the improvement feels again again, pretty intensely emotional.
0:14.6	So that drew me in.
0:16.3	That's Nicholas Thompson, and this is episode 63 of the morning shakeout podcast. Hey everybody, it's your host Mario Freoli and I'm excited to share a special
0:36.5	live recording of the podcast that I did with Nicholas Thompson he's the
0:40.4	editor-in-chief of Wired magazine in front of a live audience last month at
0:44.4	Traxmith's track house in Boston, Massachusetts. In this conversation, Nicholas and I talked
0:49.8	exclusively about
0:54.0	for Wieard.
0:55.0	Last fall, Nicholas, who is 43 years old,
0:58.0	he ran not one but two 238 marathons at Chicago and New York, only four weeks apart, and both of those races were faster than his previous personal best of 243.
1:09.0	We recorded this episode the day before this year's Boston Marathon, where he ended up running
1:14.0	234-27 off a nice negative split which if you've run Boston you know is not
1:20.0	easy to do. This is not a long episode, only 35 minutes or so, but Nicholas has agreed to come
1:25.4	back on another time so he can dig deeper into the role that running plays in his life,
1:29.7	his journalism career, his love of music, and a lot more.
1:33.4	Okay, here we go with Nicholas Thompson. All right, welcome to the morning shakeout podcast brought to you by Track Smith.
1:50.5	I'm Mario Freily.
1:51.8	This is my guest Nicholas Thompson. He's the editor-in-chief of Wired magazine.
1:56.0	A 238 marathoner at the age of 43. He ran that last fall at two races, New York City in November and then a month prior to that in
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