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The Misogi: Ending the Year with an Exceptionally Difficult Challenge
What if ending your year with the hardest thing you've ever done could completely transform how you start the next one? Brad Draper tackles this idea head-on with his annual "misogi" tradition—a practice borrowed from Shinto warriors involving an exceptionally difficult physical challenge. This year, he combined 500 kettlebell swings, 500 pushups, and 500 curls with 27 miles of walking, completing 49 laps of 0.53 miles each to hit marathon distance. (He deliberately made it harder as he went, because apparently that makes sense when you're already exhausted.)
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