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“I’m an adventurer. I ran in Death Valley, Cambodia, Brazil. I ran on a trail for 36 hours, towed a pickup truck for 27 and a half hours,” said ultramarathoner Krasi Georgiev in the Focus show.
“These are the things that make me alive. Before I started running, I was a little fluffier and less disciplined. I was ridiculed at school. When I left for England in 1997, I went with £ 60. I slept in a box. I ate what I found. Then I stole something for the first time because I was terribly hungry. I stole milk from a company. Years later I went to apologize and leave what I took. But I knew it was temporary and things would go wrong. “I started working in restaurants. Then I studied to be a psychologist. I worked with people who suffered from domestic violence. At one point it started to affect me a lot,” Georgiev said.
The ultramarathoner also fell into the trap of drugs. “I tried everything. It lasted 6-7 years. I lived with a dealer. I began to feel that things were not going well. I came to a suicide attempt. I wanted to jump off a bridge. At one point, a boy appeared who “Soon after that I decided to radically change my life and take matters into my own hands,” he added.
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