Ready, set go.

This is episode 96 with my brother from another mother,

prolific endurance author with more than 20 books to his name and

two 39 marathoner, Mr. Matt Fitzgerald. Welcome to the Strength Running Podcast. I'm your host

Jason Fitzgerald and you're about to listen to Strength Running's first live

show with author Matt Fitzgerald. If you're not familiar with Matt, he's

written more than 20 books about sports nutrition, endurance, running, and the

marathon, including some of my favorites,

like the endurance diet, brain training, racing weight,

and diet cults.

His latest is a memoir called Life is a Marathon

that chronicles his career as a coward when it comes to suffering that

inevitably comes with endurance running but he learns to overcome that suffering and

in doing so discovers the person that he wants to become both for himself

and for his wife Nataki who has severe bipolar disorder. It's a very different type of book about running that I really recommend, especially if you want a moving

read that isn't too heavy on training jargon. Now I also want to be up front that the

format of this episode is a little bit different.

This was a live conversation at the Tattered Cover bookstore in Denver, Colorado.

So it's a little bit shorter and after editing out the store's background noise and blasting air conditioning and using one of their

microphones, we're left with audio that's less than stellar, but I hope you'll still enjoy it and

get something out of it.

So without further delay, please enjoy Matt Fitzgerald on what he's learned about failure,

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