Running the Dream, Matt Fitzgerald
Running the Dream, Matt Fitzgerald
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Running the Dream
One Summer Living, Training, and Racing with a Team of World-Class Runners Half My Age

Author: Matt Fitzgerald

Narrator: Jamie Renell

Unabridged: 7 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 05/05/2020


Synopsis

The bestselling author of 80/20 Running and How Bad Do You Want It?
reveals his inspiring and surprising journey to see just how fast he can go.

Matt Fitzgerald has been running (and writing about running) for most of his
adult life. But, like many passionate amateur runners, he never felt he was quite
fulfilling his potential. If he follows the training, nutrition, and lifestyle of an elite
runner, just how fast could he go?

In his mid-forties, Matt at last has the freedom to do nothing but train, if only
for the span of one summer. The time is now. He convinces the coach of Northern
Arizona Elite, one of the country’s premier professional running teams, to let him
train with a roster of national champions and Olympic hopefuls in the running
mecca of Flagstaff, Arizona, leading into the Chicago Marathon. The results will
completely redefine Matt’s notion of what is possible, not only for himself but for
any runner.

Filled with a vibrant cast of characters, rigorous and quad-torching training,
and a large dose of self-deprecating humor, Matt’s gripping account of his “fake
pro-runner” experience allows us to partake in the dream of having the chance to go
all the way. Yet for the gifted young runners Matt trains with, it’s not a dream but
concrete reality, and their individual stories enrich this inspiring narrative.

Running the Dream pulls us into the rarified world of professional running in
a way we can all relate to, regardless of speed, and inspires us to try to achieve our
own potential.

About Matt Fitzgerald

Matt Fitzgerald is an award-winning endurance sports journalist and the bestselling author of more than twenty books on running, triathlons, fitness, nutrition, and weight loss, including Brain Training for Runners and Racing Weight. His byline appears regularly in national publications, including Men's Journal, Outside, and Women's Running. An experienced running and triathlon coach and certified sports nutritionist, Matt serves as a training intelligence specialist for PEAR Sports and as a featured coach on active.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Roy

I picked up this book to motivate myself for the 2020 Madrid Half-Marathon that I suddenly realized it upon me. This is the race that I was supposed to run in March 2020, and then in September 2020, and then in March 2021. Now it is set for September 26, and it looks like it will actually happen. I......more

Goodreads review by Brian

A fun and quick read about an average joe runner training like a pro. Cool idea, entertaining ok, but would have liked to hear a bit more about the actual pros, what he learned from them, the hard parts about being a pro runner, etc.......more

Goodreads review by Michael

The author, a sports journalist and a pretty good amateur runner with 40 marathons to his credit, with impressive times in the 2:40s, spent 13 weeks at age 46 training for the Chicago Marathon with a team of elite runners in Flagstaff, Arizona. His quest was to see how good he could become if he had......more