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I used to play in hardcore-punk bands and now I write about running. In particular a book about running the Western States Endurance Run called "Runhundred". I am also the founder of the independent running clothing brand Willpower. ...more

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Getting Older in a Young Sport

Getting older in a sport that worships youth means asking myself, more honestly than before, what running still gives, what it takes, and what it is allowed to become.

Getting older in running does not arrive all at once. It does not show itself only through slower times, longer warm-ups, or more frequent injuries. Instead, it enters quietly.

Through the first real sense that not everything is

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Runner's World by Chris Zehetleitner
"Chris erzählt in Hundert-Meilen-Herz die Geschichte seines ersten 100 Meilen Rennens und dieses ist kein anderes als der berüchtigte Western States 100. Die Geschichte ist kein 0815-Bericht über die Höhen und Tiefen eines Ultralaufs, sondern reicht d" Read more of this review »
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"Chris Z. erzählt in seinem Buch auf fesselnde und berührende Weise seinen Lauf beim legendären Western States. Er führt uns durch alle Höhen und Tiefen, lässt uns einen Blick in den Abgrund werfen an dem jede:r Ultraläufer:in in einem solchen Rennen " Read more of this review »
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“Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.”
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" My second book shows up on goodreads as "unknown author". The meta data on amazon.com is correct.

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" The author of this book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

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“Just like the mountain sometimes does not let you pass, the heat would not allow me to run in those canyons as I wished.”
Chris Zehetleitner, Runhundred: Heart Versus Heat at Western States 100

“Just like the mountain sometimes does not let you pass, the heat would not allow me to run in those canyons as I wished.”
Chris Zehetleitner, Runhundred: Heart Versus Heat at Western States 100

“Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer.”
Verlyn Klinkenborg

“(Home is) a place we carry inside ourselves, a place where we welcome the unfamiliar because we know that as time passes it will become the very bedrock of our being.”
Verlyn Klinkenborg, The Rural Life

“Right before you head out running, it can be hard to remember exactly why you're doing it. You often have to override a nagging sense of futility, lacing up your shoes, telling yourslef that no matter how unlikely it seems right now, after you finish you will be glad you went. It's only afterward that it makes sense, although even then it's hard to rationalize why. You just feel right. After a run, you feel at one with the world, as though some unspecified, innate need has been fulfilled.”
Adharanand Finn, Running with the Kenyans: Passion, Adventure, and the Secrets of the Fastest People on Earth

“The Devil whispered in my ear: ‘You’re not strong enough to withstand the storm.’ I whispered back: ‘I am the storm.”
Adharanand Finn, The Rise of the Ultra Runners: A Journey to the Edge of Human Endurance

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