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“It’s something just so beautiful, what we found with each other,” MacPhail tells host Quintin George in the new episode of Runner’s World’s video podcast series, which you can watch above or on YouTube.
Watch the whole interview with MacPhail to find out how his training partners played such a pivotal role in his preparation.
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