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Sahara Grit Feature201224 min Perseverance at the Marathon des Sables was broiling me, I kicked myself for not conserving enough water from the previous checkpoint. Yet here I was in…

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The Endless Run FeatureNovember 200924 min Reflections on the 2008 Comrades. n October 2007, I was reading a magazine article about how Alberto Salazar had nearly died from a heart…

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