Category: Personal Growth
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Eco-Challenge — When Teamwork Became the Toughest Test By 1995, Ted had climbed mountains, crossed oceans, and pushed his body through limits most people never approach. But the Eco-Challenge would test something very different — and far less predictable. This wasn’t just a race. It was a 300-mile, nonstop, multi-sport survival challenge that had to…
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Volunteering to Help Pope John Paul II — August 12, 1993 When Pope John Paul II came to Colorado for World Youth Day, it became one of the most historic moments in Denver’s history. Hundreds of thousands of young people from around the world gathered to take part in a pilgrimage that would end with…
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Run Across Siberia — 1989 Forty Miles a Day Through the Edge of the World In the summer of 1989, Ted Epstein set out on one of the most unusual runs of his life — not around a track, not through a city, but across the vast wilderness of Siberia. He had read about an…
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The Run That Started Everything Ted didn’t set out to become an endurance athlete. It began almost by accident. He and Vivian were guests at The Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, visiting their friend Dr. Michael Cherington. After breakfast one morning, Ted and Michael decided to jog around the hotel’s lake — three quarters of…