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Who's the man? Let's go!

It's the man!

It's mid-July, and in California's Death Valley Valley it's close to 120 degrees. An athlete

called Scott Durek is struggling. He knows people have died here just walking, yet he's running for 135 miles, non-stop.

And sorry, I just need to say that again.

It's so hard to believe.

He's running 135 miles non-stop

I was battling extreme nausea vomiting on the side of the road

Basically laying down trying to get my body back in order.

Bad water is described as the world's toughest foot race and because of the extreme conditions

very few athletes have ever completed it.

I even jumped in a king-size cooler

that my buddy had in the back of his pickup truck

to get my body temperature lowered so that I could again run.

But Scott Durek didn't just finish Badwater, he won and set a new course record of 24 hours 36 minutes and he's convinced that as much as the miles

he put into his training the food he ate made him a winner.

I feel like that's why I've been so successful as my body had the nutrition to

basically take on the stress and load of training that I required of it.

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