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The featured runner's (Yuki Kawauchi) highest profile victory was the 2018 Boston Marathon. He and his agent put together an excellent strategy to take advantage of the horrible conditions to nullify his much faster opponents.

Great read on this here: http://japanrunningnews.blogspot.com/2018/04/how-it-happened...

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Very compelling article, and a strong counter to the idea that the no-mind state is void of intelligence. If anything, the mind of the master is more active than ever, but so thoroughly focused on execution that the meta-level has disappeard. There's no thinking about the thought process, no second guessing, none of the games the mind plays with itself. Only engagement with action so deep that one feels like "the hand of fate."

I enjoyed your comment and it was very prosaic. Thank you for writing it.

Can't recommend this enough. Probably one of the most exciting running stories in the last half century.

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