Scott Douglas is a contributing editor for Runner's World. He has also been the editor of Running Times and Runner's World's news channel. Douglas has written or cowritten eight other books, including the New York Times bestseller Meb for Mortals and perennial favorite Advanced Marathoning.
Along the path to any goal—completing a marathon or a thesis paper, winning a medal or a contract—familiar mental hurdles arise: we may fixate on the odds of failure or find our interest flags two thirds of the way through. That’s when elite enduran...[SEE MORE]