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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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I got youngest is a five-year-old
Abigail and without a doubt those two
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those two girls and my wife and inspired
me to a lot of things that I once
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thought impossible
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well I got to meet your wife and Emma
just the what three weeks ago we ran
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together in disney world that’s correct
we ran the everest expedition everest
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challenge so you definitely got to make
Emma and Anna it was it was a lot of fun
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and your daughter is just adorable and
very inspiring at the same time there
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she had a blast running with you and now
she see xie she has some spunk to her no
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doubt so how does your dream come about
well let’s see i’ll go back to right
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before right when when my youngest
daughter was born a B and M which
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probably around choose two years old I
was weighing in about 310 pounds and at
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that time i went to a doctor for a
checkup got you know that you know how
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to do your do your blood pressure and
everything and man my blood pressure my
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cholesterol was just skyrocketing so
it’s like a life notice right there that
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I want to be around to see my kids for
for living it you know to see them
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graduate college and everything else
going forward then i need to change
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something in my life that was the moment
that I decided that I don’t know Howard
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didn’t know what I was going to do but I
was going to get my butt in shape and
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get get active and get healthy
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well what got you started in running
well it was it was kind of process after
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after that that scared the doctor i
immediately went to the gym the next day
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and signed up literally we had a we had
a 24-hour gym that literally had just
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was just doing a grand opening less than
a half mile from my house so i mainly
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just signed up for that I started going
to the gym every day and got on the
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elliptical machine and the elliptical
machine maybe became best buddies in
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doing that I didn’t quite do a diet of
any sort
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I just literally started watching what i
would eat and end portion controls and
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things of that nature and over the
course of about a year and a half i lost
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about a hundred twenty pounds from that
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point on I was I’d go to the gym I i
will continue to always go to the gym
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and I had a friend that would show up in
and we would lift at the same time and I
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start talking because he was a disney
fan so you know how Disney fans can
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unite on common front and now I was a
disney for anybody with a runner and he
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said you know you need you really gotta
you need to come run with me you need to
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try running away and it’s like now I got
bad knees bad news you can’t run with
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bad knees I can’t do that
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so eventually he talked me into doing
the wine and dine half marathon and so I
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said we know i’m not going to run
outside allah i’ll do it will be a
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one-and-done type deal so I trained on
the elliptical machine and this was this
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is maybe this is almost three years
after I lost away but i was still
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actively in the gym but i would
continually I would just get on with
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this machine I do long run section
listing machine like two-and-a-half
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hours on the list machine just training
my butt off and I’ve never run more than
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in my life more than four miles at one
time and I hadn’t run a year before I
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ran the wine and dine at all
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I you know I tried it once or twice
outside thought this was the dumbest
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thing ever it’s hard as heck and I don’t
like it but we went to wine and dine and
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actually ran it without stopping the
whole way through never hit run outside
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never done you know any of this stuff
and actually finished and without
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stopping and in you know actually had a
decent time which I didn’t know at the
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time I had no idea what a good time or a
bad time was but I was just under two
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hours and but I collapsed was dead but I
was hooked
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I was hooked on the on the only
environment ever since then i started
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sign up for five days and left and right
every weekend and then half marathons
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then within six months I decided you
know what I i think i can do a marathon
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that’s the kind of spiral from that
point on well I mean you know I I’m a
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big disney fan
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where and when did your disney obsession
come into play
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oh my disney obsession that disney was
something that I’ve always loved it’s a
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kid my mom and dad we didn’t go that
often very very really we go but we may
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be went two or three times but it was
something I was always fascinated with
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my wife like Disney as well and she went
more
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night and I’ve never stayed on property
until after we got married and literally
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we would go on an annual trip starting
about 2004 and so that’s about that we
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go once a year for 2004 on and then
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well now its its its way out of control
but that’s how it started yeah it’s easy
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for it together out of control once you
have an annual pass
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oh yes the annual pass just breathes a
lot more and now I think we’re there
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almost every month it seems like wow
well I mean you’re a lot closer yeah i’m
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not sure i can drive on it it’s not
unheard of that I have a thought on a
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friday afternoon hey what are we doing
we got nothing well let’s let’s just
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drive down the disney and friday after
work and come back sunday we’ve done
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that multiple times
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actually it’s funny you mention that
because i was just talking earlier with
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with Michelle screaming mclean and we
had mentioned that you ran in Georgia
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and then drove down to orlando for a
race
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oh yes yes yes I that was there was
another goofy challenge that we we
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started that I talked to talk one of my
good friends Michael Miller into had
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signed up for 242 races they the
previous year they’re on different
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weekends so I didn’t we think I didn’t
bad and I one was winding down and one
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of them with Savannah marathon but they
were always on different weekends and it
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turned out this past year tip they moved
the race they moved Savannah or I can’t
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remember things winding down the move
one of them and they’re on the same day
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and then I could figure out I figured
out that i could run the Savannah
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marathon in the morning and be able to
drive down and run wine and dine that
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evening what we call it goofy in a day
so yeah run a marathon in the morning
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and then drive down to Disney and ran
the half that evening
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yeah it’s great you had your ugly
christmas sweater text shirts on
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oh yes we we like to have fun you know
with with running there there are some
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serious times there’s time to have you
know to go to push yourself and there’s
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time to have fun so when I run with
friends
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I’m having fun and if it’s not you know
that I’m pushing you know when I first
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started running when you’re running a
marathon there’s just the biggest goals
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a marathoner that you can think of it as
get to Boston because that’s kind of the
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the elite that kind of meat not
necessary that your elite but it you’re
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the
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best the best if you can qualify for
that race and then that’s like the gold
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standard you know there was something I
aspire to do once i got into running
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after my first marathon I knew I i have
the ability to and I push real hard and
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I actually I qualified for boston within
a within a year of us actually running
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so which is almost unheard of not a lot
of people qualified fastest idea but
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just did a lot of work work ethic but
with running there is the serious times
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and then there’s some fun times so the
fun times I carry around a GoPro and a
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and a and a handheld camera and I go out
and have have a blast and put videos
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together and man we can have a lot of
fun we have a party out on the course
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when I’m out there having fun when it’s
serious it’s a whole different world but
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i like it i like having the two
different worlds and with inside running
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yeah it’s really great that you’re able
to separate yourself from that like that
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you’re not trying to hit a personal
record every time you step out on the
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course now you definitely gotta mix it
up to some point you gotta have some way
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to mix it up if everything’s all about
running as hard as you can as fast you
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Candace is often you can you burn
yourself out so to me you never have to
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kick me in the butt to go run i love i
love running if there was no races i
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would be out there every morning
regardless running just because it is my
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solace to start the day a little bit of
a full as some people know i get up at
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three in the morning every morning to go
start my day going to the gym for an
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hour then going out for anywhere from
seven to 10 miles a day that’s how I
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like to begin my monday through friday i
know i see you out on Facebook every
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more thing i didn’t even think you’re up
that early at three in the morning I
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thought it was more like four but either
way it’s that still very that’s a lot of
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dedication it it is a lot of dedication
but it like it goes back to when I when
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I first started losing weight I started
getting up at three in the morning man
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and I haven’t stopped since
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whereas just shifted from spending an
hour on the with machine an hour lifting
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to an hour in the jamming our running a
little over an hour running what time
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what time do you normally go to bed you
know I try to get sleep by 10 so i try
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to fuck so far too pretty well love for
half the five hours instantly i figured
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i can sleep
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my bed yeah well you have plenty years
of rest before then right
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oh yeah man I I think lazy to a
profession so so I gotta ask how is your
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your dream of living a long healthy life
received by your family as well as
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others received really well it’s it’s
amazing you know to have my wife get
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behind me you know and always stay
behind me and Lord knows she she calls
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me her long-term investment has paid off
so haha and i got my button shape that
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way but you know it’s it’s been a great
thing I remember the one of the things
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that help motivate me I remember when my
daughter was born we did a little video
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of our house you know to show show Emma
when she was born what what what our
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house look like with cars were driving
and then we did a video telling our
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thoughts and i remember in the video
clearly and i still have it that I said
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when you watch this video I hope when
you look at it you will not realize you
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will not recognize me because I will not
look like this that I look skinny when
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my girl see pictures and make fat they
don’t recognize me they’ve never seen me
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in their eyes is it somebody that was
big so they don’t think this can’t
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believe that’s me and in and they have
my parents my brother and my sister you
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know it’s a it’s amazing you know how
house for they’ve always have been and
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you know they they understand I’ve been
inspired they’ve all lost some my mom
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dad my sister of all lost weight and
they say that helped me that help me
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help them inspire them so yeah it’s been
good to have them could you go into
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depth explaining the steps that you took
to get started I know you said that the
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unit 24 hour gym opened up and you know
you started that’s when it all just came
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together at the right time in the right
place but was there any specific steps
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that helped you get started that help
you get over that hump of its 3am and
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I’m up let alone doing something well
without everyone every success becomes
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several failures along the way they get
to that point there there’s never been a
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person this lost weight that hadn’t done
a diet quote-unquote diet that they lose
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weight you know so you lose
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I’ve done two diets where I one lost 70
pounds and when I lost 40 but I gained
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it all back
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so you realize that diets the diets
don’t work the word diet is is a bad
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word me if it does it’s not right it’s
not you have to have a lifestyle change
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you have something you have to have
something you commit to you can’t you
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can’t change yourself and deprive
yourself of things you’d like it just
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doesn’t work you have to you can you can
win yourself all the things so i took
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the past failures of losing weight and
gained it all back and saying what can I
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do now and what like what i did was i I
didn’t give up anything i love didn’t
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drive myself I just said you know what
i’ll be very disciplined monday through
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friday and i’ll be lakhs on the weekend
I’ll get myself when I wall but what
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happened is the more I lost weight
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the healthier got the better my choices
became naturally without me wanting the
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other things it you know it didn’t know
a lot of the bad things i like I don’t
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like anymore i came sand even eaten out
but is it it took a slow weaning off and
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actually controlling and limiting not
depriving myself but not having it all
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the time just it became a lifestyle just
a lifestyle not a diet
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no I know exactly what you mean i i’ve
gone through periods of time where I win
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the ice cream for like a year
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it just had they did nothing for me but
now obviously ice cream and I go through
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. it’s where I won’t drink soda for many
many many months at a time just because
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I decide one day I just don’t want it so
i mean that’s that’s great that you were
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able to win yourself down and and you’re
you’re totally right about making better
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choices and then wanting those choices
to pay off you pay dividends for you as
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well as your body so did you run into
any roblox when you started all this
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not so much roadblocks you know I think
you have the perception that the hardest
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thing to make but when you started when
you go to a gym and this is probably
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goes back into my motherly person you go
to gym it when you go to gym as a fat
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person and you’re there you stand out in
your mind no matter what you’re like man
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everybody’s looking at me because
there’s the
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shape people and they’re working out and
you know Here I am don’t know what the
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heck I’m doing and I’m trying to
whatever so the roadblock for me was I
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hated working out in the afternoon when
everybody was there so i tried so I
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decided to get up real early in the
morning and have an early person anyway
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not a 3am early riser to begin with but
i was always an early person so but i
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decided to go to the gym earlier so that
i wouldn’t in quote-unquote embarrass
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myself while I was doing it was working
out and didn’t want to look like the you
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know because when i get off the machine
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even now when i get off the machine is
so sweat and 20 minutes because i am a
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heavy sweater so the fat guys sweating
all over the place looks like he spilled
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a gallon of water all over the place you
know was with someone of of
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embarrassment it when i first started
but you know nobody should be
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embarrassed it’s just it’s one of those
things it’s at least for me out your
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very self aware when your body is not
with the way you want it your very self
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aware of everything around you and you
perceive things that it may not even be
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real but you perceive them so if there
was any roadblock it would be you know
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not being able to fit in for say so has
there been any part of your dream that
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haven’t quite worked out yet or didn’t
quite work out at the time you know I’m
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a very happy guy and I don’t consider
anything that’s never worked out I
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always considered if something doesn’t
go the way of warning is another
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opportunity to do to find something else
and enjoy something else you know I just
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register in boston i went there with the
intent of trying to have a good race and
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and it’s the first time I’ve ever run a
marathon for me for time that I’ve ever
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run over four hours and you know so it
doesn’t is it’s one of those things that
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I could be mad and say that didn’t work
out but you know you learn from it that
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you take the experience you realize how
blessed you were to be there and you you
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realize you know hey just motivates you
to do better and get better and things
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happen you just gotta figure out how to
take lemons make lemonade
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so that’s that’s my attitude i’m very
positive you know it’s gonna be hard to
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get me down you know a roadblock I’m
like water I’ll just find a different
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way around it
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that is beautiful it’s quite easy to see
why so many people love you at the races
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for
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shades i like having fun there’s no
doubt about it man it’s just you know I
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like to have fun and most important i
love seeing other people do things that
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they thought not possible that you know
there’s a lot of people out there think
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you know I can’t do this I can’t do that
we know what that’s that was made to and
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then and if I hadn’t have got my butt
tried it that you never know and there’s
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so many people that I know now that i
see that are out there doing things
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outside their comfort zone and you know
what
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what happens is when they step out on
that uncomfortable field end up liking
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it and then they even feeding it and the
great thing is whether you know it or
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not when you’re doing something like
this you’re inspiring others to do
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things whether you even realize it at
the time or not and then sometimes
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you’ll never know you inspired somebody
to you get you know I get an email and
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your later saying I lost x-number waste
cause you I did this because you I think
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I you just don’t know and i can assure
you that anybody this out there busting
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their butt and change their lives
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there’s other people are taking notice
it and they’re being inspired to buy by
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watching other people do it so you know
my whole goal is to always get back you
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know because it’s it’s not the easiest
thing to do but it’sit’s you know I get
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a lot of reward out of helping others
and watching others achieve their own
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goals and that’s that’s an amazing thing
is so inspiring
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so do you have any dreams for the future
oh yeah i got always got dreams man
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I always got gold so no liya my first
goal is get my butt back to Boston to
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the Boston qualify you know and runnin
and runnin runnin specific goals i want
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to Boston qualify and I want to go step
three hour marathon so that that’s a
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that’s a that’s a fast time that’s what
i want to do go wise and you know but on
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the bigger grand scheme of things you
know I want to watch my kids get into
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running I wanted to do it and enjoy it
and I’ve got you saw one girl who’s
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having a pretty good time doing it
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yeah i got a younger one is a little
stubborn with it and I got a wife who
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she ever decides she really wants to do
it can do it she could be pretty darn
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good she she loves and hates running off
the same time so she gets in spurts
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where she is adamant
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the other time she did not but I give
your give her a ton of credit because
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she said she’d never ever run until she
saw one of my metal since my dad died
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she goes well I need to do it so but now
that’s that that’s kind of my my goals
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for say so do you have any last thoughts
for audience look of it yeah if you’re
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sitting here listening to this and
you’re sitting there thinking what can I
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do you know whether it be weight loss
whether it be anything you know what
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unless you actually go out and try it
you’ll never know what you can and you
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cannot do and automatically assume you
can’t do something is automatically
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losing so you know what don’t don’t
don’t be like me for a lot of years
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get off your butt just try and you know
what you may not know how the heck
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you’re gonna get there but if you don’t
start working 40 you never you never be
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able to find your way to begin with so
just just just start going after
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something even if you don’t have the
correct perceived way to get there
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you’ll end up finding it a bit so would
you like to share any Twitter handles or
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any websites that people can follow
along with your marathon adventures if
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you want to follow my my fun stuff you
find me on facebook at Fast Eddie videos
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facebook.com backslash Fast Eddie videos
and thats that that has a link to all my
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videos or iMovie move that fast any
videos on chemo and as far as twitter
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i’m eddie for a you right now and not
i’m the worst Twitter person in the
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world so you know don’t expect a lot of
good content they’re all the videos are
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wonderful and I have really enjoyed
being a part of the everest one thanks
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man i was it was great to have you with
them and have your friend Barnett we had
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a blast it was a it was a fun night
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yeah we we should definitely do that
again sometime soon especially with that
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maybe we talked her into a half marathon
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yeah I could see it one day you know
right now it’s a little part NK’s gonna
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be a win in the future i’ll definitely
doesn’t
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like well thank you very much for coming
on the show and I really appreciate it
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thank you i appreciate you having me
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