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Extremeendurance athlete karnazes chronicles his running career. He was a corporate hack desperately running the rat race. This was the year that dean decided to run a marathon every day for 50 days straight. Dean recorded this book largely on the run, so he said in the book, so this is more of a running memoir than the usual training book, but there is a short section at.
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