Word: smarts
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...marathon, the way it's run now, it's not an endurance contest. But the Tarahumara do two things that are different: they run as a group. Secondly, they alternate between bursts of effort and recovery. That's what's brilliant about their running - it's this really smart, strategic combination of fast and slow...
...book about people who hallucinate while running or become disoriented and exhausted. You say running is really easy, but obviously ultra-running is an extreme sport. It's very hard, and people go through a lot. Why do you think people push themselves that hard? A really smart scientist, Dr. Dennis Bramble at the University of Utah, said to me, "Recreation has its reasons." It's an instinct we have inside of us. We push ourselves that far because we're hard-wired to want to remind ourselves that...
...fell apart in the first half, rallied at halftime,” sophomore forward Jackie Alemany said. “We made certain goals to reach at certain times, and through tough defense and with Princeton getting lazy and arrogant, we shut down their offense and made smart decisions on [our own] offense.”That said, something intangible was different from the minutes before. It was as if the first half was simply a distant memory. Harvard outscored Princeton, 39-16, in the final frame, receiving contributions from nine out of the 10 Crimson players on the roster...
...yelled, “I am the destroyer of Yale! Bow down before me!” Why in the world did this happen? In my heart of hearts, I know Yale is not that much different from Harvard—it’s a good school with smart people who I’m sure will change the world just as much as we will. Well, they did let George W. in, so okay, that legitimately makes me hate their stinky Bulldog guts. But other than this glaring malady, what motivates me to hate them with such...
...into pretty much every school that she applied to,” said William Wong, Campbell’s friend from the program, who attends Yale. “She’s very, very good academically and really smart...