Miscellaneous
Matt Comer has always been competitive but wasn’t always a runner… in fact, much like my own story, he couldn’t run a mile until the early 2000s when he picked up running as a way to lose weight and get back into competitive sports. As I’ve mentioned in a couple of prior episodes, my husband and I are avid Orangetheory-ers. That’s where we met Matt Comer about a year and a half ago. He’s broken pretty much every rowing record at our studio and is consistently one of the top rowers in the entire country. He’s also one of those guys that makes running at 12mph at incline look easy. But I didn’t know the extent of his athletic journey until we had this conversation today. We talk about how Matt dreamed up this crazy idea of running across the Grand Canyon and back (as if running it once isn’t enough) and how he and 2 of his closest friends are joining him for this feat. While it may seem like a simple enough goal - there is a LOT that goes into preparing for something like a 50-odd mile run with 20,000 feet of elevation change. So in this episode, we do something a little different. Matt hasn’t completed his goal just yet - the date is April 25th - but we talk ALL of the details and how he’s preparing both physically and mentally for this crazy challenge. We’ll catch up with Matt again after he’s actually completed the run across the Grand Canyon and back to hear how it unfolded.