Hi this is Hope.

This is Kerem.

Hi this is Katie from Washington DC and you're a l'anome

Athlete Radio. Hey everyone welcome to no-meat athlete radio radio we've got a great episode today

with a long-time online friend of mine whose name is Scott Spitz many of you of course

will already know him and Scott has a pretty remarkable story.

Doug and I did not want to try to give an introduction to such a remarkable story ourselves

before Scott came on.

We figured we'd just let him come on and give you the story himself.

So Scott, thank you so much for being here today with us. I've been looking forward to this episode a long time and I think it's going to be a good one.

Yeah, thank you. Thank you. Thank you for giving the opportunity.

Absolutely. So as I said, I want to get right into your story. I want that to be what this episode is about because to me

The way that it's unfolding and the way that I see you handling it on Facebook and your blog is extremely admirable and inspiring.

So I just want other people to, you know, those who don't know you to get that from you and hopefully

take from what's going on with you what I have.

So for me, your story kind of starts back in, I guess, 2010, which is when we met, and I'm sure it started before that but that's when you help me out with the marathon roadmap you did an interview this is back when you were training I think to qualify for the US Olympic trials trials and you were a 225 marathoner just working on getting

faster. Can you just take us back there like back when that was your focus and

what you were doing as a vegan and why you were doing it?

Yeah, sure.

I was, I was training for, you know, just general running and I had a really,

I had great success at the Chicago Marathon 2009 where I did run the 225 and you know from there I just thought okay let's go let's go for the trials I didn't really know I didn't really have a really good idea of my

abilities at that time it was pretty shocking to run that 225 admittedly but I have a great

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