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Harvard University evolutionary biologist Daniel Lieberman grew up encouraged to lead an active lifestyle, from hiking to cross country skiing. Yet he was amazed to experience the long-distance running feats of the Tarahumara, or Rarámuri, indigenous community in Mexico while doing field work in the Copper Canyon in 2012.
Just as amazing was an insight he gained from an elderly Tarahumara runner. When Lieberman asked how he trained to run such long distances, the man did not understand the concept of training and replied, “Why would anybody run if they don’t have to?”
“It was such a great question,” Lieberman recalled. And it was the genesis of his new book,
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Brian Kozera has competed in five Ironman races since received treatment for a rare form of cancer at Fox Chase Cancer Center. Now, he’s raising money for cancer research as he prepares to compete in the world championship.
Brian Kozera finishing the Lake Placid Ironman. In 2014, Kozera was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer and underwent treatment for a year. Since then, he’s competed in five Ironman races across the globe and is training to compete in two more this year.
It was a scene straight out of a movie. The cerulean waters of Lake Wörthersee in Austria, the roaring crowd surrounding it and the adrenaline he felt as Brian Kozera’s arms surged through the water to begin the 2016 Ironman Austria race.
KONA, HI, May 05, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Colin Clark is doing an ‘IronmanForHope’ on August 7, 2021 to raise money for the Hospice of Kona and the.
UW-Stevens Point Athletics Kylie Bridenhagen
In August 2018, two months after graduating from high school, Kalena Clauer wrote some goals in her paper running log. Make a college team. Run personal bests at distances from 800 meters to the 5K. Try new things: the steeplechase, a half marathon, a 20-miler.
Her mantra scrawled in purple marker was “Do more with less!” Underneath, she elaborated: “Faster w/ less organs.”
For years, Clauer’s primary goal was survival. In August 2015, a congenital condition required surgery to remove half her left lung. Then, in 2017, she was diagnosed with thyroid cancer and had that gland taken out, too.