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Something wonderful will happen when you relax, harness your dogged competitive intensity and work ethic, honor your inner voice, and respect the scientifically validated principles of successful endurance training: You will get faster! It’s hard to say it any more plainly than that. The path to going faster requires that you balance out and chill
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Every single one of us possesses the strength to attempt something he isn’t sure he can accomplish. It can be running a mile, or a 10K race, or 100 miles. It can be changing a career, losing 5 pounds, or telling someone you love her (or him). I can guarantee that no one at the Western States knew they were going to finish, much less win (including
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a kind of water jiu-jitsu needed to wrestle with sharks.
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The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds
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able to outsmart, outhunt and outlast the bigger, stronger and faster members of the animal kingdom.