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<\/a><\/p>\nBut don’t worry about them.\u00a0 Worry about you.\u00a0 Improve yourself.\u00a0 And help motivate your friends to also improve themselves, even if that means they’re finishing a race an hour before you.\u00a0 We can all succeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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