
#48: Stop trying to run a marathon at sprint pace
The Academic Imperfectionist
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Is Kipchogi the Fastest Sprinter?
It would be bonkers to compare the fastest sprinter against the fastest marathoner on the basis of pace alone. Kipchogi didn't have to concern himself with explosive power that the best sprinters develop. Bolt didn't need to worry about endurance the way marathon runners do. And yet so often we make exactly that sort of comparison involving ourselves and how hard we work without even cracking a smile. Let's think for a moment about that feeling that so many of us have of I could be doing more. You shut your laptop at 6pm on a day when you don't have any super pressing deadlines coming up, and you start thinking about dinner with a vague sense of guilt and shame
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