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Wonder Boy

August 1, 2008May 27, 2021 by Bill Donahue

At the age of four, slum kid Budhia Singh ran 40 miles without stopping in the blistering heat of his native India. Then, afterwards, his childhood only grew stranger.

Runner’s World
Edited by Peter Flax. Photo by J. Carrier.
Republished in Going Long: The Best Stories from Runner’s World.

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Posted in Asia, Profiles, Runner’s World, Sports

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