33 Marathons Without Legs: Cedric King’s Lessons on Life & Resilience
Rich Roll, 60 and recovering from spinal fusion, guides double amputee veteran Cedric King through the New York City Marathon, then talks with him about losing his legs, opioid addiction, and turning pain into service.
The gist
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Cedric says ketone shots helped, but he skipped two alarms while feeling fine and plans to tell his crew his schedule: one every 90 minutes.
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Cedric read Man's Search for Meaning the week before his 2012 blast and The Alchemist a year earlier; both shaped how he reframed his injury.
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Cedric says he reached five oxycodone pills a day, and quit by not refilling after his daughter asked him to play like he used to.
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Cedric preaches tactical patience and aiming for the next stoplight; Rich backs negative splitting, though Cedric admits they ran a positive split.
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Cedric calms pre-race nerves by hugging and encouraging other runners, and says helping someone struggling beside you is the way through hard times.
"I did BCAAs. I did those disgusting Ketone IQ shots. Sorry if I'm losing sponsors, but those disgusting Ketone IQ shots did help. We missed two Ketone IQ shot alarms. I set them on my watch and I just forgot them. I could have used those."
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See all on the Ketone IQ page"One of my favorite books that I ran across, especially, maybe two books: Man's Search for Meaning. I was given this book a week before this happened... They were at a point so low that happiness was finding a small piece of rice or a pea in the bottom of a questionably watery ..."
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See all on the Man's Search for Meaning page"A year before this happened, I finished the book called The Alchemist. And to your point with the alchemy, this is you taking something that's so abstract and turning it into something beautiful... You could turn it into something very rare or something very beautiful by your ..."
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See all on the The Alchemist page"Don't hit the gas too soon before you get to your goal... So make sure you're paying attention to the resources and energy that you do have and don't squander them. Make sure you're [using] tactical patience. We could have taken off on the Verrazzano Bridge. We did — we walked..."
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"Don't hit the gas too soon before you get to your goal... So make sure you're paying attention to the resources and energy that you do have and don't squander them. Make sure yo..."
"I'm a big believer in negative splitting life."
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"One of my favorite books that I ran across, especially, maybe two books: Man's Search for Meaning. I was given this book a week before this happened... They were at a point so l..."
"A year before this happened, I finished the book called The Alchemist. And to your point with the alchemy, this is you taking something that's so abstract and turning it into so..."
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"I did BCAAs. I did those disgusting Ketone IQ shots. Sorry if I'm losing sponsors, but those disgusting Ketone IQ shots did help. We missed two Ketone IQ shot alarms. I set them..."
"This is a fine Go Brewing elixir of life. Non-alcoholic beer. Shout out to Go Brewing. But a grenade is no bigger than this soda can right here. This beer can."
"I grew up watching, you know, the movie comes out in '94. I go in the Army in '95. I used to watch that movie every day. Back when you had VHS, we just bought the tape."
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"Don't hit the gas too soon before you get to your goal... So make sure you're paying attention to the resources and energy that you do have and don't squander them. Make sure yo..."
"One of my favorite books that I ran across, especially, maybe two books: Man's Search for Meaning. I was given this book a week before this happened... They were at a point so l..."
"A year before this happened, I finished the book called The Alchemist. And to your point with the alchemy, this is you taking something that's so abstract and turning it into so..."
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"I'm a big believer in negative splitting life."
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