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The Pine Ridge Reservation, the subject of today's slide show, is located about 75 miles southeast of the Black Hills in South Dakota.
Forty miles an hour into a fixed barrier: 35 Gs.
Then they irradiate our food, trying to make it last longer, so it can travel thousands of miles from where it's grown to the supermarkets.
I grew up in Hong Kong, with six million people in 40 square miles.
They've come thousands of miles on a perilous trip, risked life, health and property, spent months of the most arduous labor a man can perform and at length with expectations raised to the highest pitch have reached the coveted goal only to discover the fact that there is nothing here for them."
But this is another, this is the Grand Canal, which was constructed in the first instance in the fifth century B.C. and was finally completed in the seventh century A.D. It went for 1,114 miles, linking Beijing with Hangzhou and Shanghai.
And it does speeds of up to about 100 miles an hour.
They last for about five miles, in which case we put our foot back on the pedal.
But the under-underdog hangs tough, and 22 miles into a 26-mile race, there is Derartu Tulu, up there with the lead pack.
They're not doing 26 miles, they're doing 100, 150 miles at a time, and apparently without injury, without problems.
You take a runner like Ann Trason or Nikki Kimball or Jenn Shelton, put them in a race of 50 or 100 miles against anybody in the world, and it's a coin toss who's going to win.
You take a horse on a hot day, and after about five or six miles, that horse has a choice: it's either going to breathe or it's going to cool off.
It makes no sense to have the antelope over there, dead, and the people who want to eat it 50 miles away.
That's because an Apache triathlon used to be you'd run 50 miles across the desert, engage in hand-to-hand combat, steal a bunch of horses, and slap leather for home.
But my parents live thousands of miles away, so they just don't get to see each other that often.
Two thousand miles away in Peshawar, Pakistani transgender activist Alisha was shot multiple times in May 2016.
But less than 24 hours, I was 13 miles away from those mosques, visiting one of our Acumen investees, an incredible man, Jawad Aslam, who dares to live a life of immersion.
And we placed him in a company in Western Kenya, just 200 miles away.
Their tradition is so extraordinary that these mariners sailed three million square miles across the Pacific without the use of instruments.
There are tens of thousands of miles of dewatered streams in the United States.
There are 4,000 miles of dewatered streams in Montana alone.
That's right, it's a total distance of 140.6 miles using just your arms in less than 17 hours.
The first 40 miles, they clipped by as we benefited from a little tail wind.
By 4pm, I had made it to mile 94, and I did the math and I realized I was in serious time jeopardy because I had 18 miles to go and less than 90 minutes, and that included a few sizable hill climbs.
The first 10 miles of the run went pretty quickly, as I was so excited to finally pass people with my three wheels to their two feet.
We've driven 140,000 miles.
In fact, while we drove 140,000 miles, people didn't even notice.
When I placed a marker on the Google Earth Map, I had to go with the nearest city, which is about 400 miles away from where I live.
A 22-year-old individual operating alone, thousands of miles from me, has got to communicate to me with confidence.
You can walk a mile when it comes to understanding why that person's driving 40 miles per hour in the passing lane; or your teenage son; or your neighbor who annoys you by cutting his lawn on Sunday mornings.
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