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“For the most part, we exist in a numb, dead society. I’m doing my best to be alive and running in the mountains is the best way I’ve found to do that. And because I love the effortlessness that sometimes occurs while cruising down a cushy pine-needle singletrack or even while grinding up a switchback above tree line. I love how I can run up and into a mountain cirque or over a pass and be completely dwarfed and humbled by the sheer immensity and grandiosity of the landscape and I love flying down the other side with the breeze in my hair and the gravel in my shoes and the burning in my quads and the branches in my face and then when I’m finally all worn out there’s nothing like peeling my shoes off and just sitting. Just being at rest. Running sharpens the focus on life and intensifies the emotions. Is there any better reason to do anything?” - Anton Krupicka; photo credit: Matt Trappe

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Engadin, Switzerland (by Alex Polli)

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"Slow miles build fast miles."

- something I read in someone’s post.

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“We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves…The more restricted our society and work become, the more necessary it will be to find some outlet for this craving for freedom. No one can say, ‘You must not run faster than this, or jump higher than that.’ The human spirit is indomitable.”

—Sir Roger Bannister, first runner to run a sub-4 minute mile

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Italian photographer Lorenzo Montezemolo climbed Mt. Tamalpais to capture Marin County, California covered with a river of fog lit by a full moon. He later wrote that he had “compressed 186 seconds of moonlit fog into an instant.”

Instagram: http://instagram.com/lmontezemolo

Website: http://www.elmofoto.com

Tumblr: http://el-mo-fo-to.tumblr.com

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Rockies Heli Canada – Kananaskis

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TOR16_DAY5 - RIFUGIO CHAMPILLON

PH ROGER BERTHOD  Rifugio Champillon

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Tor 2016 

PH Jeantet Stefano #Tor2016 Col de la Crosatie

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Hanging out with friends, socializing over good food and drinks - that is fun. No question about it. But running a marathon - or writing a book, or building a bookshelf, or committing to the hard work of loving someone - that’s fun squared, or cubed, or multiplied to the nth power. It’s not that every second of the activity makes you smile and sigh with delight. The opposite, in fact. It’s the deep, deep satisfaction you can get in doing something - in committing to something that requires your total concentration and effort. Fun, but much more than fun.

Scott Jurek’s answer to: “How the fuck can running a 135-mile race in 130-degree heat be fun?” (via eupnee)

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Highland Heroes

Iceland 🇮🇸 | simona_br_photography

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UTMB map and pics courtesy of UTMB.

About 9hrs to go before I can start ... yay! Weather should be OK and we just had a change of course due to stonefall on the last climb. It actually means we are spared a massive climb at the end 😍

The main difficulty for me will be reaching Courmayeur (km 80) in time. As the cut off times look very strict on the first part (I'm not saying that after that it'll be a walk in the park though).

Anyhow ... looking forward to treating myself to a real Italian coffee ☕ during the race 😛

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Eating pizza ... and waiting for the start ...

Yup ... that's my first trail race this year and yes it is going to hurt ... but it is also going to be beautiful & great!

Make the best of this coming weekend! Be it a race, meeting w friends or who knows ... your wedding! Savour every moment 😊

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Highland Heroes

Iceland 🇮🇸 | simona_br_photography