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	<title>Climbing and Running &#187; North America</title>
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		<title>A New Record &#8211; 55.89 Miles on New Year&#8217;s Eve</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 02:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Lewis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wasn’t having any fun. Seven hours into the race and I had already run about 35 miles, but there were over five hours to go and I was cramping.  My legs were dead, it was getting cold, my stomach wanted to heave, and I was wondering what the hell I was doing running when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ten Years (and counting)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:07:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Lewis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My legs were cramping and I had two immense blister clusters on each foot.  The stomach wasn’t great and I had not done nearly enough training miles.  I felt a lot of internal pressure to at least finish the Tucson Marathon since this would be 10 consecutive years of starting and finishing at least one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Last Mile</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 04:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Lewis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With about one mile to go I decided that I was going to turn on the after-burners and try to pass as many runners as I could &#8211; and not get passed by anyone else.  There was nothing to say that I would be successful and there was no ribbon or PR on the line [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tragedy on the Mountain</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 03:54:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Lewis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Falling!!!&#8221;.  When I heard this word shouted from my climbing companion who was falling downhill headfirst into a massive crevasse on Mt. Baker in September 2006, I had a couple of seconds to get my ice-axe jammed into the ice above me into a classic self-arrest position that we had just learned a few days [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monumental California Marathon</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 19:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Lewis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The wake up call at 4am was both unwelcome and was not needed to wake me up as I had a typical restless night before a marathon.  The clothes were hung with care, the number pinned to the shirt, timing chip secured to the shoe, and everything needed laid nearby.  With the bus coming at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mount Whitney Update Day One</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Lewis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a plan to complete a trifecta of the highest mountains in North America (Denali), South America (Aconcagua) and Continental US (Whitney).  The first two were completed and summited in 2008 and Whitney at 14, 505&#8242; could have easily been climbed in the summer &#8211; without attempting a winter assault.  But that would have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good to Great &#8211; and Climbing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Lewis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just read an interview with &#8220;management guru&#8221; Jim Collins (who wrote Built to Last and Good to Great) where he compares management and leadership of companies to climbing.   Jim has his own 30-year amazing record of rock climbing some of the most famous and hardest places of the world and he often writes about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Post-Denali Diet</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:55:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Lewis</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[North America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[training for climbs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alaska]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The most discussed topic on the mountain, besides when we will summit, is about food.  We fantasize about different meals that we will eat when we return and savor in our brains the different tastes and textures of food.  This is all understandable given that we are eating chocolate, nuts, packaged crackers and jerkey and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tips and Tricks for Denali</title>
		<link>http://www.climbingandrunning.com/tips-and-tricks-for-denali/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:38:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Lewis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was thinking of what I brought that worked well and what could have been better. Here is my short list: 1. Boots &#8211; The Everest Millet boots were worn on the mountain for the first time. They saved a lot of time with avoiding gaiters and overboots and except for banging around the ankle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adventures with Piss and Poop</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:32:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Lewis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I had written in previous post, a lot of people ask how you go to the bathroom on a big mountain such as Mt Denali. The answer: very very carefully First, for us guys, we have a much easier experience for half the time. We can take a pee most anywhere (if we can [...]]]></description>
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