Malachi O'Brien | Lessons from Running 26.2 Miles Everyday for Over 90 Days

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Jon Gordon

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🗓️ 15 January 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Jon Gordon is joined by Dr. Malachi O'Brien. Malachi has now been running a marathon every day for over 90 days, and he is looking to break the world record for most consecutive days running a marathon for both men and women. Over the course of the podcast, Jon and Malachi discuss his reasons and motivations for running, how to overcome mental struggles, and how to discover what you are meant to do in life.

Connect with Malachi on Twitter and Instagram to follow his journey.

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0:00.0	Hey, this is John Gordon with Positive You, and today my guest is Dr. Malachi O'Brien.
0:14.1	Malachi, how are you doing?
0:15.6	John, I am phenomenal.
0:17.3	I'm excited to be on Positive You with you today in 2023, like this is the first podcast
0:23.7	I've done for the year.
0:24.7	So I'm excited.
0:25.9	And this is the first guest I've had live for this year, I've recorded a few in December,
0:31.2	but the first one.
0:32.2	And I wanted to do this podcast with you because you are doing something remarkable.
0:37.8	You are doing something incredible.
0:39.5	You are doing something that is beyond human.
0:42.8	You've been running marathons every day now for a long time.
0:46.7	How long have you been running marathons for?
0:48.9	How many days?
0:50.3	So today was officially day number 90, my 90th consecutive marathon distance.
0:56.0	I started officially on October the 7th of 2022.
1:00.0	So I surpassed, I did the calculations, I'm almost at 2400 miles total at this point.
1:08.0	But you're doing this every single day.
1:09.8	You're running a marathon every single day and you're up to 90.
1:15.6	Why are you doing this?
1:17.6	I would say there's an outward reason and inward reason.
1:20.2	So the outward reason is I'm using as a vehicle to raise awareness for two causes that mean a lot to me personally.
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