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Ultra-marathoner Bill Bradley and the embrace of crazy By Anna Schuessler

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reparing to track down Santa Rosa ultramarathoner Bill Bradley, I dust off my own running shoes. I bike to Santa Rosa’s Howarth Park, where I am to meet him, and run around the lake a few times. For someone who hasn’t run in a few months, I’m feeling pretty smug about my early morning jaunt. Of course, that was before I sat down with self-professed “Average Town Bill� Bradley.

Now 50, Bill has run six marathons. Completed seven Ironman Triathlons. Completed several 100-plus mile races. Run three triathlons—at once. For Bill, biking three miles and running another three is not even a warm-up lap. Obviously, what he’s accomplished is impressive. In fact, it can be intimidating. But for him, running is not about the splits, the competition or the course, although all of those things have a bearing on how he performs. Running, he says, gives him a “high,� and, just like any

addict, he constantly strives to find what will give him the next big rush, seldom competing in any one race twice. His triathlon days are over; Bill now describes his former days as an Ironman obsessive as his “Ironman rut,� maintaining that only the wimpier athletes compete in the same races over and over again. Bill doesn’t care about competition, and he also doesn’t care too much about time. His last 199-mile race with 1.2-mile swim under the Golden Gate Bridge %-

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