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The ultra mindset : an endurance champion's 8 core principles for success in business, sports, and life
\"Travis Macy has summited glacial peaks in the French Alps, rappelled into limestone caves in China, and raced through parched deserts in Utah. In 2013, he famously won the Leadman Series, a combination of nearly 300 miles of high-altitude trail running and mountain biking over the course of five epic endurance races. Macy achieved all of these victories without elite professional training or even exceptional strength, speed, or flexibility. His secret? A precise outlook he calls the \"ultra mindset,\" a set of simple principles for daily life that includes embracing fear, rewriting the stories we tell ourselves, and mastering the art of asking for help. By practicing these principles in all areas of life, anyone can successfully achieve goals that might have otherwise seemed impossible. \"-- Provided by publisher.
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LI LIFE OUTDOORS / First Steps to Get Up and Running
TWO WEEKS AGO, early on a morning that had \"spring is coming\" written all over it, a group of friends and I went out for a run on Fire Island. We started at Robert Moses Parking Field 5, and headed east - on boardwalk, sand and pavement - past the lighthouse, and the mostly deserted summerhouses of Kismet, Saltaire and Ocean beaches. The air was clear, the sun warm, the ocean breezes gentle and welcoming. We ran and we talked and we laughed and we explored and, at the end, back at Field 5 we all went to the boardwalk for a mandatory gazing out over the ocean, which glimmered in the morning sunshine. \"They may want to stay in shape, have a healthier lifestyle in general, or lose weight.. ... But at some point it dawns on the runner that she would do this even if it didn't help keep her slim, healthy and connected to a close-knit group of friends. She is drawn to the simple activity of putting one foot in front of the other, breathing harder than normal, and feeling the wind in her hair and her feet rhythmically hitting the ground. She has become a runner.\"
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The innovation mindset : eight essential steps to transform any industry
\"Innovation requires more than a eureka moment. The vast majority of new product ideas never make it to market. Typically, this is because of the failure to address a real problem that a customer has experienced and is willing to pay to have solved. What do people and businesses need to know about the realities of innovating in order to develop products successfully? Lorraine Marchand-a seasoned practitioner who has guided Fortune 500 companies and start-ups on developing and launching new ideas-lays out a step-by-step framework for spurring success. She shares her eight laws of innovation, a formula for driving significant and lasting transformation in any organization. Marchand emphasizes the frame of mind needed to spark the innovation process, underscoring the importance of creating a problem-solving culture and supporting personal curiosity, passion, and talent. She pinpoints the strengths shared by the big ideas that break through and debunks the myths that hold back aspiring creators. Drawing on her experience as a woman in a male-dominated field, Marchand discusses how to support entrepreneurship by women and highlights the contributions of underrepresented innovators. Marchand's how-to program for innovation is clear and easy to follow, featuring a toolkit of strategic templates and planning frameworks that are illustrated by helpful case studies. Written in authoritative but conversational language, The Innovation Mindset offers a practical plan for both the veteran with another great idea and the first-timer with a big dream\"-- Provided by publisher.
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26.2 MILES AND 75,000 FEET / The lure of Boston has drawn a record number of runners for Monday's 100th marathon - 5,000 of whom didn't even have to qualify
Minus mud, hash pipes and Jimi Hendrix, he just might be right: The 100th running of this storied, 26.2-mile foot race is an event of Woodstockian proportions. With 37,500 runners, 10,000 support staff, an estimated 1 million spectators and sufficient supplies for Desert Storm II, it's as much a celebration of one kind of lifestyle as Woodstock was of another. It's also safe to say that the Boston Marathon has come a long way in a century. In Massachusetts, the third Monday in April is Patriots Day, a holiday honoring the heroes of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, fought on April 19, 1775. The race that has become a Patriots Day tradition began on April 19, 1897, when 15 runners, including six from New York, lined up on a dirt road in Ashland, a distant Boston suburb, to run a course patterned after the one used the previous year in the Athens Olympics. Officials of the Boston Athletic Association had been in Athens for the 1896 Games and were so inspired by the marathon, which featured a dramatic victory by an itinerant Greek worker named Spridion Louis, that they decided to hold a similar race back home. The first race was won by one of the New Yorkers, a lithographer named John McDermott, in a time of 2 hours, 55 minutes, 10 seconds - about 46 minutes slower than Kenyan Cosmas Ndeti's 1995 winning time of 2:09:22 (and Ndeti's race was two miles longer; until 1923, the Boston course was only 24 miles). And yet, while Boston always has loomed large in the running world, it took a major change - in attitudes toward sports, fitness and health - to make it relevant to the world at large. \"If there had never been a running and fitness boom, there might be a few thousand runners doing {the 100th Boston},\" says Hal Higdon, author of \"Boston: A Century of Running\" (Rodale, $40). \"But it wouldn't be anything like this.\"
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FITNESS FILE / DOUBLE WHAMMY / Even champion runners are recognizing the benefits of running and walking. SIDEBAR: Upcoming Events (see end of text)
Nine-time New York City Marathon winner Grete Waitz of Norway, 1968 Boston Marathon winner Amby Burfoot, 1972 Olympian Jeff Galloway and women's marathon pioneer Kathrine Switzer are among a number of outstanding long-distance runners from the 1960s, '70s and '80s who have incorporated both running and walking into their fitness regimens and their lifestyles in the '90s. Galloway, who since his competitive days has become an influential running author and coach, has long advocated a combination of running interspersed with walking (generally speaking, a 1-mile run / 60-second walk) as the best way for beginners to complete the 26.2-mile marathon distance. \"The human body wasn't designed for running continuously for long distances,\" he says. \"By alternating running and walking from the beginning of a run, we can extend our endurance limits dramatically.\" The answer may literally lie in between. In the April issue of Runner's World, Burfoot recommended a combination of running and walking as an ideal way for walkers or runners to build fitness. \"Some walkers simply don't walk fast enough to get any benefits,\" he says. \"It takes more vigorous exercise. If they introduce a few running breaks into their walking, the exercise becomes much more vigorous and healthy and benefit-filled. Runners, on the other hand, sometimes need to slow down, take easy days, recover from injuries. For them, walking breaks are the way to go.\"
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Fighting for my life : how to thrive in the shadow of Alzheimer's
\"A uniquely hopeful exploration of the impact of Alzheimer's disease. This book combines the compelling story of Jamie Tyrone, a self-proclaimed \"lab rat\" diagnosed with a 91 percent chance of contracting AD, with the medical expertise of Dr. Marwan Sabbagh, a leading authority on Alzheimer's and dementia.\" -- Amazon.com.
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Sand sculpture, How older people shaped and were shaped by Jones Beach
PHOTOS - 1) [G. WILBUR DOUGHTY], seated at the far end of the table on the left in the above photo from the 1920s, helped broker the deal that made Jones Beach a state park. Doughty, Republican boss in the Town of Hempstead, crossed party lines to support [Jones Beach, Robert Moses]' effort to buy the beach. 2) The Indian Village, seen below in 1941, was where a Lakota woman named Rosebud Yellow Robe told stories about American Indian culture and hosted free activities, mostly for children. 3) Opposite page, inset, beachgoers exercise in 1937, and below, the beach scene in 1940. 4) [GUY LOMBARDO], left, shares a laugh with lyricist Yip Harburg at the Jones Beach Theater in 1977. NEWSDAY PHOTOS / KEN SPENCER - 5) [MARJORIE WEINBERG]'s career as a cultural anthropologist grew from Jones Beach's Indian Village. 6) [GEORGE MARTH], 76, former water safety director, says his love of Jones Beach is undiminished. 7) [SUE GULIANI], Jones Beach director; 8) Newsday Cover Photo / Ken Spencer - A lifeguard for decades, George Marth still loves Jones Beach.; Passing the years with Jones Beach. Newsday Cover Photo / Ken Spencer - A lifeguard for decades, George Marth still loves Jones Beach.
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OUTDOORS / RUNNING / For Late Starters, Half Is Better Than Whole
LAST YEAR, 4,256 runners completed the Long Island Half Marathon, and another 616 finished the full marathon. If your goal is a marathon and you haven't started training yet, you're too late. With only six weeks until race day, you should plan to do the half marathon instead, and choose another marathon to run in the fall. Here are some tips to get you across the finish line in good health. Take it seriously: While it may not take the dedicated training needed to complete a full marathon, you can't just wake up on race morning and expect to run 13.1 miles. Treat the distance with respect: Ideally, you should have completed at least one 11- to 12- mile training run two weeks before the race.
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