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		<title>JiaYou!</title>
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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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		<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>On Moving On</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Oct 2010 06:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Lewis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life as we know it. Or think that we do. Always changing. What we believe and might knew. Our time is so short. Still waters run deep. Mountains don&#8217;t move. But friends we must keep. Live life to it&#8217;s fullest. For we have to move on. Wherever that is. And towards a new dawn. No [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Urban Cow Half-Marathon: Overcoming adversity</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 04:35:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Lewis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What a week.  Continuing lessons on overcoming adversity, finding the good in tough situations, remaining (mostly) optimistic and finishing with a bang.  Although I had no idea on Monday morning that I would be running a half-marathon in Sacramento on Sunday or that a business opportunity would turn out to be a landmark win, here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Happiness</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:41:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Lewis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about happiness and being happy lately. What does that really mean? Is it when you&#8217;re walking down the hallways at work that your footsteps feel lighter?  Is it when you&#8217;re running and the perfect song comes on and the words are meaningful and completely relevant?  Is it when everything seems [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thanks-Giving</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:55:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Lewis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After another Thanksgiving, I thought it would be relevant to write about Giving Thanks and what I am thankful for this year.  How can another year have gone by???? 1. I am thankful for my health.  To be able to run 5 miles today and see the green hills of Petaluma is a really good [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership attributes in climbing and running</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:44:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Lewis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As someone who has done marathons on all seven continents and climbed the highest summits on five of the same seven continents, I&#8217;ve had time to reflect about how the challenges related to business and my own performance are intertwined. While some areas are easy to identify (life is a marathon for example), the whole [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Highlights of 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:07:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Lewis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was going to write a post recapping personal events and achievements of 2008 but while I was out during my last run of this year late this afternoon, I thought about the truly magical moments of the past year that were so wonderful that they took my breath away or made my eyes hurt. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why We Run and Climb</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 05:22:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Lewis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of us get asked from time to time, why do you do what you do?  Why do you run marathons?  Why do you want to climb mountains?  Especially when the experience can be so &#8211; well &#8211; hard and distasteful. Sir Edmund Hillary gave the supposedly flippant comment, &#8220;Because it&#8217;s there&#8221; &#8211; referring to [...]]]></description>
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