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Everyone You Know Is Running. The Answer Goes Back 50 Years.

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Everyone You Know Is Running. The Answer Goes Back 50 Years.

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Everyone You Know Is Running. The Answer Goes Back 50 Years.

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Apr 20, 202652:32222 views
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Martin DugardCross CountryCalifornia

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Martin Dugard has spent his whole life at the intersection of running and history, and The Long Run is where they finally collide.

Dugard is a #1 New York Times bestselling author with over 12 million copies sold, a three-time Raid Gauloises adventure racer, a co-holder of the global circumnavigation speed record, and a cross country coach who has built California state championship programs from scratch over two decades.

And he's earned every word of this book.

In the 1970s, running was a fringe sport. What happened in between is one of the greatest untold stories in sports history, and Dugard just wrote the book on it. The Long Run drops April 14, and he joins the show to break down exactly how Frank Shorter's 1972 Olympic gold, Steve Prefontaine's counterculture fire, Joan Benoit Samuelson's 1984 Olympic breakthrough, and Grete Waitz's nine New York City Marathon victories turned a niche obsession into a global movement.

But this isn't just a history lesson. He gets into the coaching philosophy behind the 1970s greats, what today's running boom has in common with the first one, and why the athletes who built this sport still don't get the credit they deserve.

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