Tom McGrath Nearly Drank Himself to Death. Now He’s Using His Life to Help Others

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“If I get out of this,” he vowed. “I’m going to run as far as my legs will carry me. I’m gonna run to help people.'

raised high over his head. He got to keep it after carrying it through Manhattan for the 1996 Atlanta Games, and likes to bring it out and show it off. “You can never relight it,” McGrath says . “If you do, they’ll come take it away from you.”

By the late 90s, it took a liter of vodka a day to satisfy his addiction, and McGrath had given up on catching the elite multi-day runners. McGrath had developed a taste for alcohol and the shadier sides of life after becoming a barman in Queens in the ‘70s. Once on the path to the priesthood at St.

But quitting is not McGrath’s thing and thus began a 15-year back and forth between drinking and racing. His weight fluctuated between 145 and 250 pounds. “I had two sets of clothes,” he says. He got so disgusted with himself that he would cross the street when he passed his gym. “I was literally living a double life. It was psychologically devastating.”One fateful night in 2010, McGrath was driving home, weaponized with drink.

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