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Because you all have such good taste.
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Originally posted by Penske_Account
TRUE STORY:
The first time I went long, my mantra for the day was a quote from Eleanor Roosevelt:
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
I chanted the first sentence over and over for ten hours. I also met a hot chick on the run, whom I ended up eating lobsters with. Al fresco.
Is that helpful?
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A friend of mine teaches my run class. He biked the Leadville 100 last weekend, and when he came back, he said a similar mantra kept him going for 8:49:51. He beat his time from last year by ten minutes and moved from the top 80 to the top 50. He also ended up with mild hypothermia thanks to a nasty thunderstorm for the last two hours of the race. I don't think he dined al fresco, but he probably had a beer or two at a bar after they let him out of the hospital.
It was hard to bitch much about running up and down hills for an hour after he told us about the race.
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