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Give Me 5 Minutes And I’ll Give You The Secrets to 25 Years of Joyful Running!

by on December 7, 2010 in Creating Culture, Influence

Yesterday as I ran 22 snowy, frigid miles in preparation for my historic 20th marathon in Phoenix, I began to contemplate the sheer joy of running that has transformed me into a lifetime athlete with a resting heartbeat of 48-52. My running journey began in 1985 with a fitness college class that required a certain [...]

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Four Invaluable Lessons Learned From Over 20 Years of Marathoning

by on June 25, 2010 in Creating Culture, Influence

Yes. You read it right. My last twenty-three years of training have resulted in nineteen completed and certified marathons (26.2 miles each). If you’re counting, that would be 497.8 miles of delicious agony. And that is not counting the 12,809 training miles of running I have logged in my journal. To put it into stark [...]

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