Eddie McCoy: Lazy to running marathons in 2 years
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Running Marathons across the country
Eddie McCoy [Fast Eddie] overcame his weight loss problem with the help of a 24
hour gym, elliptical and a push to run a half marathon!
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Transcription
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this is the dreamers podcast where
dreamers shared their stories to inspire
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you
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now join host Joe Pardo as he interviews
a dreamer who’s living their dreams
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yeah
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welcome to the dreamers podcasts i’m
your host Joe Bardot and today I’m
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interviewing Ed McCoy who is living
history by living a long healthy life
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with his kids
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welcome to the show Fast Eddie hey Joe
thanks for having me thank you for being
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a part of it
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why don’t we start by giving the our
audience a quick look at your background
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well let’s see i live this from
respective I’m from Atlanta Georgia just
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out of atlanta georgia and a little city
to the West called Villa Rica I grew up
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in chattanooga tennessee went to Auburn
University where I work for the football
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team for four years and you know I’ve
seen a lot of things that’s a kind of
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now been to get in a little bit of
running and running is taking me around
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the world wow I mean literally literally
around the world you’ve been all over
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the country that i know of what other
places have you been outside of America
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any yeah well I shouldn’t say at the
Bahamas best fuck outside of America’s
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I’ve been I you like that’s far i mean
it’s not that is literally outside
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america
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yes no but I have been all around this
country no doubt about it that’s great
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where’s the farthest you’ve been to the
west and then I guess north and south
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let’s say to the west i have been the
California all the way up and down the
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coast running ran big sur Mer know more
about three weeks ago and that’s right
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below monterey california and the
farthest north i’ve been was hit
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probably a last weekend in Fargo North
Dakota and then I i was in Boston
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earlier for the Boston Marathon that’s
that’s about as far northeast I’ve been
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so all that about four weeks how about
that
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yeah I mean I follow you on facebook and
it’s pretty amazing to see where you are
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every single week
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yes it’s been a lot of traveling the
backs of impact but I’m glad it’s
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summertime and now I’m ah I don’t have
too many more trips till we get back to
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the fall so what would you say is your
biggest inspiration my biggest
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inspiration is absolutely without a
doubt my little girls and my wife Anna I
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have two daughters right now their
agents are eight now five and my oldest
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is the eight-year-old Emma and
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