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Diane Van Deren is known throughout the world as an ultra-runner - athlete participating in the running race at an incredibly long distances. A woman is able to run a few days without stopping to sleep and rest, with the secret of her amazing stamina is moved 16 years ago, the brain surgery.

In his youth, Diana was a professional tennis player, and did not even think about career ultra-runner. During the third pregnancy, when the woman was 28 years old, she went into seizures, but it did not make her leave the sport. Ten years Diane overcome himself, attending training and participating in the tournament, but the disease has progressed, and in 1997, Van Deren decided on surgery. She removed a part of the right temporal lobe of the brain the size of a hen's egg, and then the attacks have stopped, but there were some problems with memory and perception of time.





One day after the usual daily run Diana has found that he can not remember how far she ran and how much time it took. Developing the acquired property of thinking and endurance training, she learned how to run a fantastically long. Over the next few years, a woman jogging together overcome thousand kilometers, including over rough terrain, high mountains and arctic ice.





The athlete won almost all possible competitions run on so-called ultra-marathon distance. One of the last of her achievements is winning the series multiday races «Yukon Arctic Ultra 300" in which the participants overcome a total of 482 km on a snowy Yukon Territory, located in north-west Canada. Now Diana 54 years old, and not to lose shape in between the competition, every day it runs about 40 km.

via factroom.ru