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'You can't go into an ultra marathon thinking it will be easy' - interview with Tom Evans

The Way of the Runner - conversations on running with Adharanand Finn

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The Pressure to Lose Weight

Many promising athletes are completely lost to the sport through this pressure to be skinny, which comes from a lack of understanding. The people who are winning are super skinny and it creates all sorts of eating disorders. It's a spiraling problem because then the eating disorders affects bone health. And they start getting bone injuries, knee injuries, heel injuries, shin injuries. So yeah, so highly recommend the Good for a Girl, Long and Fleshman.

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