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26.2 Miles on the 9th Line: How Bill Thach Turned Suffering Into a Training Protocol

Bill Thach has a daughter. She was five months old when he was diagnosed with neuroendocrine carcinoma, a rare and aggressive subtype of colorectal cancer, at 33. She’s seven now. And Bill told me he hides a lot from her — not to be dishonest, but because he wants her to know him as the dad who handled it. Not the sick dad.