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| | SI.com - SI Adventure - Divine Madness - Wednesday July 30, 2003 03:13 PM |
 | | Bertoia says that in 1995, while she and Tizer were staying in a motel on the way to Texas, where she was running in a race, Tizer got up in the middle of the night and headed for the bathroom in a drunken stupor. |
 | | Soon after founding the group in the late '70s, Tizer, who is now in his mid-50s, renamed himself Yousamien, a word he derived from the phrase "You are the same as me." His interest in ultrarunning began in 1991, when he witnessed a race at the University of Colorado. |
 | | Marc Tizer is a self-taught running coach and self-styled philosopher who grew up in Philadelphia and came to Boulder from Chicago, where, in the late 1960s, he was a political activist. |
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