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		<title>Charlie Gray WDG #5</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA["If the question were 'Who did you most enjoy competing against?' the answer would definitely be Frank Shorter.  Distance God.]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8220;Independence Day&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 18:48:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There are many forms of tyrants, but there are none so terrible as those stifling their own people in the name of freedom. &#8211; E.A. Bucchianeri “Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right&#8230;and a desire to know; but besides this, they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible,...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Pioneers Of The Running Store</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:48:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA["We hope we did some good." - Bill Rodgers, Bill Rodgers Running Center]]></description>
		
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		<title>Should You Throw Away Your Running Shoes?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:09:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When sports scientists first heard about the Tendai Marathon Monks, they assumed the reports was exaggerated folklore.  [The way sports scientists do.]  So, in 2011, a team from Stanford flew to Mount Hiei to document the damage.  They expected to find knees ground down to bone. Hips riddled with arthritis. Ankles held together by scar tissue.]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8220;Long Live, Jack D!&#8221; Mystical Miles Translated</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 22:27:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[She's on the sixth floor and I am visiting every day, forced to park by the homeless camp on the edge of the lot and limp across the hot pavement past numerous empty spots reserved for the disabled.  Flowers wilted before I could get to her private room.]]></description>
		
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		<title>150 Awesome Tips To Become An Okay Writer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 07:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[13. "A thing known passes out of the mind into the muscles," the poet William Carlos Williams knew.
"Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape, and exercise on the mind." - Emerson
Exercise. Get healthy. Stretch. Stay hungry.
"The moment my legs begin to move," noted Thoreau, "my thoughts begin to flow."
Sue Grafton, author of the Alphabet Is For Making Millions mystery series, works out twice a day. "Writing is hard physical labor and very stress-producing. You have to have some way to blow your tubes and get it out of your system."]]></description>
		
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		<title>1:59:30 &#8211; The Secret Ingredient</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 00:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“You don't run 26 miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secret recipe” - Frank Shorter.  What Frank  said is true for a two-ten marathoner. But what about sub-two? What about running twenty-six miles at four minutes and twenty-three seconds per mile? What about that?
Many storylines, but there is one I have yet to see noted. You might say, an actual secret. Because over a half century later, few understand, After The Work, The Rest Is Easy.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Kejelcha, Second Fastest But Nobody Better</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 00:59:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Back in the day, never thought two hours would be broken in my lifetime. Of course, never thought I'd live to be 79.  I also did not also anticipate a 3:47 miler in $500 super shoes. With a Magic Elixir, too. And I don't mean PEDs.]]></description>
		
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					<description><![CDATA[“Please, God,” Barker Ajax prayed aloud on yet another grey, rainy winter day in Roselandia’s top cafe, “let this be your sign, the sign, dear Lord, of your forgiveness. I ordain this under your grace, Heavenly Father. Just let me have the money this once. Thank you, God. Just do this one thing for me, your Immenseness. I will be worthy of your support. Honest. You can trust me. After all, I’m a writer, which is no different than a member of the clergy, if you think about it.”]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Oregon Runner Store</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 13:57:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Many of the early employees were accomplished local runners. We took training seriously, and the store work schedule was structured to allow for training. That was an important aspect of working at the Oregon Runner.]]></description>
		
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