Matt Fitzgerald

1 week ago | endurancemastery.substack.com | Matt Fitzgerald

I remember him as an emaciated man of indeterminate age who sat in a wheelchair, spoke in a hoarse whisper, and drank through a straw. His name was Alan Sherman, but everyone called him Smoky. He lived in central Maine, a couple of hours from where my family lived in Seacoast New Hampshire, and he was dying of ALS. My family drove there on a raw Saturday morning in March of 1985.

2 weeks ago | 10xtravel.com | Matt Fitzgerald

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2 weeks ago | endurancemastery.substack.com | Matt Fitzgerald

Last week I brought on a new athlete—new to me, I should say, but hardly new to running. At 58, Scott has been a runner for 47 years and is coming back from a long, pandemic-related slump. During our onboarding call, he asked me about my approach to training older runners. “I don’t have one,” I told him. “I treat every athlete the same, by which I mean I treat each athlete as an individual.

3 weeks ago | 10xtravel.com | Matt Fitzgerald

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3 weeks ago | endurancemastery.substack.com | Matt Fitzgerald

One of my favorite things to do as a coach is analyze race performances. A day or two after an athlete of mine competes, we get together online and talk about what went well and what didn’t, what stopped the athlete from doing even better, and how to address that limiter going forward. In many cases, however, I disagree with the athlete’s take on why they didn’t get from point A to point B a little quicker.