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Shad Mika on What Two Decades of Ultras Actually Teaches You

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Shad Mika on What Two Decades of Ultras Actually Teaches You

For The Long Run: Exploring the Why Behind Running›

Jul 17, 202651:47

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Shad Mika has been running ultras for over twenty years. He went from two hundred and forty pounds and a divorce to a duathlon, to Leadville, to Hardrock — and he's still going. He DNF'd his first two hundred mile attempts before he finally figured out...

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