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Your Pace or Mine?: What Running Taught Me About Life, Laughter and Coming Last
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I was filled with a sense of peace. But more than the setting, what arrested me was my intuitive understanding that he was there—open, patient—in case someone, anyone, should want to talk to him; a problem of the soul, a heaviness of the heart, a darkness of the conscience, he would listen with love. He was a man whose profession it was to love, an
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Arthur Newton, the father of Long Slow Distance training, persuaded the British
Scott Jurek • Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness

One of the characteristics which we liked and even admired about the French is their willingness to support good cooking, no matter how remote the kitchen may be. The quality of the food is more important than convenience, and they will happily drive for an hour or more, salivating en route, in order to eat well. This makes it possible for a gifted
... See morePeter Mayle • A Year in Provence (Vintage Departures)
One of the finest treks he knows of is when the sheep are herded through Spain from north to south or vice versa, depending on the season. The trek takes two months to complete. One evening he sat shooting the breeze with a colleague about their joys in life, and the other shepherd told him: ‘When you go walking with the sheep, and you see they wal
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