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20 Sept 2023 Conversations with Tyler Lazarus Lake on Endurance, Uncertainty, and Reaching One's Potential
“We realized in the struggle to keep going that we had to exist, so where we had been turning down media requests, we started accepting them.”
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- 20 Sept 2023
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…Do you have media that show up? They somehow find out, or truly it stays a secret? [laughs] We kept it a secret up through 2000, and then we had some elements in the park system that didn’t want the race to exist. We realized in the struggle to keep going that we had to exist, so where we had been turning down media requests, we started accepting them. Strangely enough, especially in ultramarathons where you would kill to get media exposure, we have to select the media that we let in at Barkley because the venue is small and limited. You have to keep the number of people down, or there’s no place for the runners themselves. Which media do you choose and why?…
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