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user-inactivated · 3597 days ago · link · · parent · post: 2nd Bi-Weekly Give Me a Quote from Something You've Been Reading Lately
"And that's how I became a runner once again. In the course of a single night I had been transformed from a drunken yuppie fool into a reborn athlete. During a period of great emptiness in my life, I turned to running for strength. I heard the calling, and I went into the light. For weeks after my thirty mile jaunt I was nearly incapacitated from muscle spasms and inflammation..." from Ultra Marathon Man: Confessions Of An All-Night Runner by Dean Karnazes, chapter 4, page 64