“I start the Cancer stories season in a noisy way sharing my friend Fitz Koehler’s story.
Fitz is one of America’s prominent race announcers as the voice of the Los Angeles Marathon, Philadelphia Marathon, Big Sur Marathon, Buffalo Marathon, DC Wonder Woman & Batman Run Series, OC Marathon, Carlsbad Marathon, Long Beach Marathon, Monterey Bay Half, San Diego Half, Encinitas Half, St Pete Runfest, Surfing Madonna – World Record for Largest Beach Run, Savannah Women’s Half, Mermaid Half & 5k and more and she has worked with The DBZ, Daytime TV, Emotional Mojo and regional network affiliates for ABC, NBC, CBS and FOX
Fitz is also the founder of the Morning Mile a programme that is aimed at combatting childhood obesity by getting children to put one foot in front of another for 20-45mins at the start of each day .
On this episode Fitz talks about:
👉 Her compelling role as a fitness expert;
👉Her job and passion as a noisy race announcer making everyone at any race feel like a winner, pouring love on them;
👉Welcoming them to the finish line and celebrating achievements on different levels;
👉Her experience with breast cancer which was diagnosed less than seven weeks after a clean mammogram;
👉How she felt her story was going to be so tragic ;
👉How she had 16 months of aggressive chemotherapy, radiation and surgical treatments
👉The weird side effects her aggressive chemotherapy had on her that she had not expected ;
👉Her adventures zigzagging across the USA, hosting twenty two massive races during her treatments;
👉How she felt inspired to share her cancer story in her book ‘My noisy cancer comeback’ ;
👉How her choice to stay positive in spite of everything that was going in her life impacted on her recovery journey ;
👉She also shares practical tips that got her through this period in her life;
👉She shared how her friends family, fans and her running community and race mums helped her;
👉She talked about different instances when strangers helped her ;
👉She described how to do a self examination to check for unusual growths in both men and women.”
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