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Sweat spot

By Bill Weisbrod
ESPN The Magazine

Monday, August 3, 2009

This article appears in the August 8 issue of ESPN The Magazine. THE JOCK: Mark Weir, mountain biker THE WORKOUT: Slack-line walking THE BENEFIT: Improved balance and body control When Mark Weir first strung a slack line across the backyard of his Marin County, Calif., home, he was more concerned with being mocked by friends than being clocked by a fall. "Now it's like, who cares?" says the 36-year-old mountain biker. "I'm an idiot anyway." Weir first got his circus on two years ago, when h ...

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