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Monday Morning Memo: A Portrait of the Athlete as a Young Woman

04.06.2026 by David Murray // Leave a Comment

My daughter Scout, age 11, shares her philosophy: “Most people start off slow and then go fast, but I start off fast, and then try to go as fast as I can at the end, but sometimes someone catches me.”

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