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Life Is a Marathon by Matt Fitzgerald — WisdomDeck honest review

Honest review · Resilience

Life Is a Marathon

by Matt Fitzgerald

Fitzgerald runs eight marathons in eight weeks while his wife's bipolar illness worsens; running as a way through. Honest memoir.

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you want a running memoir about endurance off the course.

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Skip it if…

you want training advice.

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Three things you will actually use

Endurance is daily.
Run through it.
Love is a long race.

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Read the chapters on the first marathons.

Our verdict

Fitzgerald's eight marathons.

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