Lessons from a First-Time Marathoner: Meet Intern Matt

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🗓️ 9 October 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Intern Matt (also known as my good friend Matt Kulling) joins me over a beer at Murphy's Bleachers in Chicago just one day after he ran the 2018 Chicago Marathon. He was not a runner before July and so I decided to catch up with my buddy about what he learned from his first marathon. Why did he sign up to do this? What was the hardest part of training? What were the highs and lows of the actual race? Would he ever do it again? Here's what he said, when I asked him what he learned from this whole process. "It doesn't really matter if you run in 2:04 or if you run in 6:04, people will cheer you on the same amount. This is me kind of patting myself on the back but it's a tremendous accomplishment to just finish or even say that I'm going to do this at all. It's a self-imposed goal. The fact that people are so supportive of you – if you have to walk, it doesn't matter. If you're really old, it doesn't matter. If you're really young, it doesn't matter. People really rally around you and that's what I thought was cool about seeing you run Berlin and London and now something I experienced in Chicago." Congrats, Matt.

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0:00.0	All right, this is a bonus episode of the Citius Mag podcast.
0:05.6	We are taping live from Murphy's Bleachers in Chicago across the street from Wrigley Field.
0:11.2	I am joined by Intern Matt, my good friend, Matt calling.
0:15.7	Matt, how's it going? Good. So you're the guest on the show.
0:19.2	You're maybe arguably the slowest runner we've ever had on the podcast but well that's
0:25.2	an insult no it's not it's an honor wear it or pride so you ran the Chicago
0:30.8	marathon intern met took on the Chicago marathon you weren't a runner before July
0:35.7	correct so first off how are the legs feeling
0:40.6	trashy why? Because I ran 26 miles. That's why. What hurts right now? Well see my my feet. It's not like that's and like my left ankle but my like actual legs my legs proper if you will don't
0:57.5	hurt really at all but my feet hurt. Obviously more this is is, we're taping this on Monday,
1:04.7	you ran on Sunday, but afterwards,
1:06.3	like you were able to walk today, not so much.
1:09.4	Right.
1:10.1	I got out of bed, I like took the sheets off and then I had to like with my arms move my legs to the side of the bed so I could get out of bed and that wasn't great and I'm having a lot of trouble standing up after sitting down. But I did do some biking today. We had lunch at the beautiful
1:30.0	Alsbeath, beautiful Alsbeath, and I biked to to you which is like two and a half miles or three miles or
1:36.0	something so not like completely disabled but not not feeling great either.
1:43.0	Right, so I wanted to bring you on the podcast because you bring a very fun and interesting perspective that a lot of people probably have.
1:51.0	It's the pretty much couch to marathon perspective.
1:54.0	That's also an insult.
1:56.0	It's not. It's true.
1:58.0	Well it's not couch. I wasn't like doing nothing.
2:01.0	What were you doing before this?
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