Lazarus Lake: evaluation

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…Say a little more about that. You run a 4.16667-mile loop, and you do it once an hour. You have a start every hour, and you have to be there in the starting corral and start every hour and finish in time to be in the corral next hour. It just goes on until there’s only one person left. It’s not that hard to run four miles in an hour, but to do it on and on and on, and you only have this short time in between. We did the first one in 2012, and now there’s over 400 of them in 70-something countries. The winner is the last person left, and he can only go one lap after everybody else is gone. Once you finish a lap by yourself, the race is over, so people who want to achieve big performances have to have other good runners out there with them. There’s one winner; everybody else is a DNF [did not finish] because the distance of the race is defined by how far the winner goes, so everyone else didn’t finish. But people of all levels can go the farthest they’ve ever gone. It lends itself to that. It’s really more about the individual achievement. Then the last person who DNFs is called the assist because he’s really the one who decided how far the winner went. Without a good assist, you can’t have a big performance. We’re having the World Championships in October here on my farm. We’ve got runners from 30-some countries and a lot of really exceptional athletes. I got to set it up where you remove the politics from sports. Everyone is there because they qualified. I never liked beauty contests in sports, when you’re picking all-stars or whatever. You like to get it down to be purely objective and no subjectivity in it at all. I think it’s a version of running that has a place for people at all levels to succeed and to accomplish something. It just seems like a worthwhile place to apply my time. That sounds great. Lazarus Lake, thank you very much.…

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