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S1E39 Marko Cheseto - A Double Amputee's World Record Optimism


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What happens when a promising young track and field star loses his legs in the dark Alaska winter, and how does that lead to a life of unimagined success?
Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Marko Cheseto - Double Amputee, Marathon Runner, World Record Holder.

Timestamps
2:00 - That moment when someone handed Marko a business card
3:00 - "A website, a link, and online. In 2008, those were words that I didn't even know what they meant...On line is where we dried our clothes."
5:45 - "I was just a college athlete in Kenya...running because I loved it."
9:10 - "I think I have a pretty good idea of how snow falls. It's an accumulation of cold in the morning. The morning dew...piles up and in six months you have snow on the ground."
13:20 - "I went home that evening...he had hanged himself."
16:05 - "Nothing stuck with me like his last phone call."
18:10 - "I had to accept it was depression and that I needed medical help."
22:15 - "Where have you been for three days?"
24:45 - "They say, 'We have to amputate your feet.'"
27:31 - "I said, 'I can still move my toes.' They said, 'Oh we forgot to tell you this part, 'That is how you will feel for the rest of your life.'"
32:40 - "I trusted the process, pushed myself. Starting training again...And I started running again."
35:19 - I feel like you broke a lot of hearts.
36:35 - "I think there's nothing called low-points in life. There's no such thing."
38:20 - "I can embrace it or let it define who I am. I chose to embrace it."
43:00 - "There is nothing called wrong or right choice. It's the consequences of those choices."
46:42 - "Happiness is a skill."
51:23 - "I don't have sleepless nights, knowing what is going on around the world. I get sleepless nights not knowing what is out there."
56:02 - "You can't just fantasize on things you want to do in life. You have to practically put it into practice."
58:35 - How do you manage the expectation that the paraathlete world has on you now?

Links
https://www.facebook.com/marathonmarko

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