1538 My Strength Is My Story with Matt Fitzgerald

Life is a marathon. As an endurance athlete and coach,
Matt Fitzgerald reveals how the marathon transforms the lives of
everyone who attempts it, especially how it has helped his own
family cope with serious adversity.


Matt Fitzgerald is a husband of 18 years to Nataki. But really
Queenie, their puppy, rules the house, especially with her 5am
wake-up licks.


Matt is an endurance sports writer and certified sports
nutritionist. He is a coach and spokesperson for PEAR Sports and
former senior editor at Triathlete and Competitor.


Matt has also contributed to Men's Health, Outside, Runner's
World, Shape, and many other publications. He is also the author
of more than 20 books, including his brand new book, Life is a
Marathon: A Memoir of Love and Endurance.
"I thought I solved the problem by quitting.” ~ Matt
Fitzgerald

Connect with Matt Fitzgerald


BOOK: Life is a Marathon


 


Enjoy the multitude of topics discussed including mental illness,
marriage, running, endurance, and love.


Intensity

Charmed Childhood

Marriage

Running

Coward

Pain of running

Mental toughness

Love of my life

Triathlon on St. Maartan

Endurance training

Personal growth

Selfishness

Mental Illness

Empathy

Love

George Sheehan

Don Delillo

Inner journey

Challenges

Values

Clear vision

Cross country journey

Celebration

Passion

Choose your thoughts

Reflective responses

"You've changed!"

Ironman Triathlon - Santa Rosa

Fall in love with running



 


Connect with Matt Fitzgerald


BOOK: Life is a Marathon
"What a gift is can be to tell the whole story, to show
it all." ~ Matt Fitzgerald

 


#MyStrengthIsMyStory #CreateYourNow #LifeIsAMarathon


Quotes and statements within the interview:


"I didn't write this book ten years ago 'cause I didn't have my
happy ending yet."


"I do it (running) for the adventure; for the inner journey it
takes me on."


"I view it (marriage) as marriage."
"Every kid is a sucker for something they have a gift
for."

"I failed to show up to the start line of a very important track
race."


"A coward on the race course, is a coward off it as well."
"But something about that particular humiliation
brought me all the way back to that high school race that I failed
to show up for."

"It was almost like my sport was my mistress, in a sense in the
relationship."


"It wasn't an easy balance."


"Things really had to go haywire before I realized she was sick."


"I was doing what I wanted to do."
"It became my best opportunity to be the man I wanted
to be."

"The good comes at a cost."


"No matter what sort of life you live, you need to be strong, and
it takes courage to live a good life."
"The life we have together now feels like something we
earned and we deserve, and something to be relished."

"What is a good life?"


"I was going on nothing but hope."


"So many runners have stories that aren't that different where
they were able to use this way of challenging themselves to
bootstrap their way to gaining the strength they needed to
overcome whatever it was that they were dealing with."
"How much control you really have about what goes on
inside your head."

"One of the things I love about Nataki is that, like I said,
she's real."


 


What has your story gifted you?


Strength



"You have to be a strong person to live a good life."


"A story of finding the strength to live the life I want to live
and to be the person I want to be."


 


Resources mentioned in the episode:



Connect with Matt Fitzgerald


BOOK: Life is a Marathon


Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/fitzgerald.matt/


Twitter: https://twitter.com/mattfitwriter



 
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