Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons. - Lance Armstrong

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What I wanted was to write a memoir that was immersive rather than reflective, to resurrect a long-gone version of my own consciousness. I kept expecting that sooner or later the effort would come to seem like second nature to me, but it never did.

Lance Armstrong

Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons.

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Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

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