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A SILVER LINING TO A SHIT TIME

I’ve spent some time staring at pictures and hearing stories of the summer’s endurance events, and I began wondering why people seek out hardship, and if type two fun is becoming trendy in our overly-comfortable, technology-obsessed world.

Everyone’s likely to have heard the term ‘type two fun’ and a lot will have unknowingly experienced it, but what is it really? Well, I like

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