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		<title>Hands to Hold</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 06:22:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Lewis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Exactly one year ago tonight, at about 9:00 p.m. our team set off from Camp IV at 26,000&#8242; to attempt to reach the 29,035&#8242; summit of Mount Everest.  When I think back to that night, all of the days, months and years before come streaming back to me, and they are all filled with those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>194 Miles from Napa to Santa Cruz</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 06:54:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Lewis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was the guy dressed as a chorizo sausage running hot in the midday heat.  The perennial leading teams from Yahoo, Google and Netapp running fast.  The team with the slogan, &#8220;Start Slow, Then Taper&#8221;, running slow.  And us, Team Cheaper Then Therapy.  I&#8217;ve run with the team for four of the past six years, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mountains &#8211; Keeping Things in Perspective</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 04:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Lewis</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[What Do you Care About?]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone sent me this essay today and it made me reflect on the meanings of the profound (italicized) sections: From the top of a mountain, we are able to witness life from a different perspective bringing us a new awareness. I think this awareness is mostly self-awareness.  We think it is about the perspective of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Antarctica</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 05:27:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Lewis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been exactly eleven months since we left the tent at 26,000&#8242; to attempt the summit of Everest.  In eight months I will leave to go for the last of the seven summits &#8211; Mt. Vinson in Antarctica.  My mind hasn&#8217;t got quite there on what it will be like during the climb or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 03:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Lewis</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[the corporate ladder]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Writing is hard.  It’s actually really hard.  I&#8217;m writing a book that has been both a journey of spiritual discovery and a personal adventure into how I got here.  More importantly, it is the story of how people come to conquer their own personal Everest.  I&#8217;m just a bit player in the bigger picture. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Random Acts of Kindness</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 05:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Lewis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I roll up my sleeve to check the time before my flight from Barcelona and back home.  The car waiting in front of the hotel is not for me, but the driver says, &#8220;Nice watch&#8221;.  I smile as he goes to check to see if he can take me to the airport since his passenger [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One way To Run A Half</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 06:06:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Lewis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One way to run a half-marathon: Fly 5,900 miles and arrive late evening the day after you depart.  Work 24/7 to prepare for coming week and don&#8217;t sleep on plane. Have late-night customer dinner and drinks.  Have the pre-race meal consist of Spanish tapas such as ham, fried Padron peppers, shrimp and potatoes.  Get three [...]]]></description>
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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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		<category><![CDATA[ultramarathons]]></category>

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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>JiaYou!</title>
		<link>http://www.climbingandrunning.com/jiayou/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 06:45:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Lewis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a moment I got to feel what it is like to be a celebrity.  We were surrounded by dozens of fans, pushing their pens on us as we signed shirts, programs and flags.  Two tall &#8211; and one not so tall &#8211; white guys in Hainan Province in China who had just finished running [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marathon History</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 07:26:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Lewis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the &#8220;Introduction of Marathon&#8221; for the Hainan China Marathon on 12/17/11 &#8230; Courtesy of http://www.hndzmarathon.org/en/intro_marathon.jsp &#8220;The Marathon as we know it today is little more than 100 years old, but there have been forms of long distance races since the time of the ancient Egyptians. The Marathon has been an Olympic distance since the [...]]]></description>
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