Preface
Prologue
Part 1 Pre-Training
1 A Crisis at Work
2 A Crisis at Home
3 Searching for a Breakthrough
Part 2 Training
4 The Training Roadmap
5 Asking for Help
6 Various Degrees of Pain
7 Burdens
8 Shin Splints
9 Gobi Sendoff
Part 3 The Gobi Warm-up
10 Tourists on the Run
11 Gateway to the Gobi
12 The Last Supper
Part 4 The Gobi Run
13 Day One: Elation
14 Day Two: Running on Mars
15 Day Three: Divine Intervention
16 Day Four: Heaven’s Gate
17 Day Five: Cat and Mouse
18 Day Six: Rest
19 Day Seven: The Final Push
Part 5 Recovering
20 Reentry
21 Ten Lessons from the Desert
Appendices
1 Mentoring and Visualization
2 Running Gear
3 Training Details
4 Gobi List Chart