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7 Yellow highlight | Page: 16 One woman tells me, as we sit on the grass afterwards, that she thinks running is like getting drunk in reverse. With drinking, it feels great at first, but then you start feeling awful. With running, you feel awful first, but then, after you finish, you feel great. That sounds...

145 Yellow highlight | Location: 641 perceived rate of exertion (PRE). Your PRE is the amount of exertion you sense yourself to be doing. Yellow highlight | Location: 759 our Western culture is becoming increasingly shaped by the world of marketing, which has at its roots the mission to pull you off your center and outside yourself so...

8 Yellow highlight | Page: 44 Months later, I’d learn that iskiate is otherwise known as chia fresca— “chillychia.” It’s brewed up by dissolving chia seeds in water with a little sugar and a squirt of lime. Yellow highlight | Page: 60 Steve Peterson, a member of a Colorado higher-consciousness cult called Divine Madness, which seeks nirvana through...