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Ваша оценкаAn endurance athlete and coach reveals how the marathon transforms the lives of everyone who attempts it--and how it has helped his own family cope with serious adversity
Step after step for 26.2 miles, hundreds of thousands of people run marathons. But why--what compels people past pain, lost toenails, 5.30 am start times, The Wall? Sports writer Matt Fitzgerald set out to run eight marathons in eight weeks across the country to answer that question. At each race, he meets an array of runners,...
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- bonnie_parker17 марта 2021 г.
One of the worst mistakes you can make in a marathon is to expect to keep feeling great when you’re feeling great — to stop bracing for the worst. I won’t make this mistake in my life. There will be more bad days, I know. Days of loss and grief, if not of trauma and violence. I don’t want to face these days. But when they come, I want to face them like a marathoner.
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The marathon tames our fear of failure in much the same way antibodies prevent viruses from striking us twice: exposure. If you run marathons, you will fail. The marathon is no respecter of persons. It humbles everyone sooner or later — and I mean everyone. I’ll never forget the strained smile of raw mortification I saw on the face of Haile Gebrselassie, widely considered the greatest runner ever, as he limped along a London sidewalk in April 2007, having just dropped out of a marathon he was supposed to win, miles from the finish line. All marathoners get their turn on the struggle bus. What matters is what happens next. Will the runner have a long memory, dwelling on his failure and taking no further risks, or will he have a short memory and try again? Most runners try again. When Haile Gebrselassie ran his next marathon, he broke the world record.
051 - bonnie_parker17 марта 2021 г.
To run a marathon is to practice life and to practice for life. Marathons serve humans in much the same way flight simulators, which assault trainees with every possible crisis, one after the other, serve aircraft pilots. Because life truly is long and difficult, it demands endurance, fortitude, patience, resilience, and long-suffering. The marathon develops all these fundamental human coping skills.
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