Meg Fisher: From Catastrophic Injury to Champion Cyclist and Gold at the Paralympics, the Healing Potential of Sport
The Ready State Podcast
Kelly Starrett & Juliet Starrett
4.9 • 623 Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Meg Fisher is a Doctor of Physical Therapy, 2x Paralympian and 11x World Champion Cyclist. She earned her doctorate at the University of Washington in 2014. Meg continues to race bikes professionally, predominantly endurance gravel and mountain bike events. She is pioneering para-cycling categories in off-road events. She also runs her own physical therapy clinic in Missoula, Montana. She loves to play outside on the trails with her dog Pax.
Meg is an absolute inspiration and we were happy to support her in her latest adventure, climbing Chimborazo to raise money for ROMP, a non-profit providing high-quality prosthetic care for underserved people. From tennis to trauma, to the healing potential of sport, this episode is a must listen.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Dr. Kelly Starrett. |
| 0:06.8 | And I'm Juliette. |
| 0:08.3 | And you're listening to The Ready State Podcast. |
| 0:15.6 | In this episode of the Ready State podcast, we are delighted to welcome Meg Fisher. |
| 0:20.7 | Meg is a doctor of physical therapy, a two-time Paralympian, and 11-time world champion cyclist. |
| 0:27.4 | That's 11 times. |
| 0:28.3 | 11. |
| 0:28.8 | Meg earned her doctorate at the University of Washington in 2014 and continues to race bikes professionally, predominantly endurance gravel, and mountain bike events. She is pioneering |
| 0:39.0 | parapscling categories and off-road events. She also runs her own physical therapy clinic in |
| 0:43.8 | Missoula, Montana, and she loves to play outside on the trails with her dog packs. And I love that |
| 0:49.5 | play outside just means casually summoning huge peaks in Ecuador. |
| 0:56.9 | This human being is a monster. |
| 1:01.2 | Yeah, and we were first introduced to her because of our support of Romp, |
| 1:02.4 | which is Range of Motion Project. |
| 1:08.3 | And she just went down to Ecuador just before this recording and climbed almost 20,000-foot peak there with a bunch of other para athletes and able-bodied athletes. |
| 1:13.9 | And it's just an amazing story to hear what that climb was like and also why she started doing |
| 1:18.7 | this work. Yeah. And I just want to, I think one of the things that really I love is her story is |
| 1:24.6 | so crazy. Just being a collegiate tennis player, having this trauma in her life. |
| 1:30.9 | But coming back to the fact that sport is such a framework. |
| 1:34.4 | We know Meg now because of sport, right? |
| 1:38.1 | The healing potential for sport, the development of community for sport, unbelievable. |
| 1:43.4 | Yeah, and I mean, there's just some |
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