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European-champion long-distance runner Chema Martinez lives to run and encourages others to incorporate running into their lives in this inspiring inside look at how an elite athlete lives. With simplicity and humility, he tells his story and explains how others can achieve more active, healthier, and well-balanced lives. Martinez contends that running is a philosophy of life that requires discipline and pays off by establishing social ties to other athletes and preventing a sedentary lifestyle. Chema Martinez, campeon europeo de carreras a larga distancia, vive para correr y anima a otras personas a incorporar la carrera en sus vidas en esta detallada e inspiradora mirada de como vive un atleta de elite. Con sencillez y humildad, cuenta su historia y explica como los demas pueden conseguir una vida mas activa, saludable y equilibrada. Martinez sostiene que correr es una filosofia de vida que requiere disciplina y que compensa al corredor estableciendo vinculos sociales con otros atletas y evitando el sedentarismo.

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Chema Martinez is a long-distance runner whose achievements include the 2002 gold and 2006 silver medals in 10k and the 2010 silver medal in marathon at the European Athletics Championships. He has represented Spain at the Olympics on two occasions and has taken on other physical challenges, including racing against a public bus in Madrid and climbing the Andes' Aconcagua, the highest mountain in the Americas.

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