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Not every single run, of course. But the ups and downs, the tough parts, the problem solving, the pushing through—all those things that happen in marathon training seem to energize, surprise, and reward him.

But your mind runs the marathon, too, and it has to be trained, he discovered. You come around a corner to a big stretch that looks a lot like the stretch you just finished.

It can kind of play with your mind a little bit. Geist does three shorter runs a week and one long one, with some cross training in between, often accompanied by his Spotify playlist. That gets in your head and brings a smile to your face and gets you moving or distracts you from the road a little bit. Other times, actually tuning into the road itself keeps him going.

His days start impossibly early, so he carves out time from the afternoon to run. It gives him both a break and an unexpected energy lift. So did Keith Olbermann.

I was shocked by it, to be honest. You want me to do it? What time does this show start, 6 a. I have to be in at what time? It was going to totally upend and change my life, and boy did it. Geist said he never had any preconceived notions of what it meant to be on TV. Murrow Award in for his breaking news coverage following mass shootings in Dayton and El Paso. But in April at the height of the pandemic, he signed up for the NYC Marathon to have some purpose and raise money and awareness for the Michael J.

Fox Foundation. But he ran one mile one week and two the next, slowly building himself up. The next thing he knew, he ran a half marathon on the day the marathon was supposed to be and recently completed a mile training run.

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