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Three-time NCAA champion, two-time Olympic runner Kara Goucher reveals her harrowing experience of one of the biggest scandals in the history of American running in her memoir "The Longest Race: Inside the Secret World of Abuse, Doping, and Deception on Nike’s Elite Running Team." Kara co-wrote the New York Times bestselling book with author and journalist Mary Pilon.