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When George Mills is not pushing his body through 120-mile training weeks at his sparse altitude camp in Dullstroom, South Africa, he could teach Benedictine monks a thing or two about abstinence.
Last summer, when he won a European Championships 1500m silver medal in Rome, his celebrations consisted of nothing but a kombucha followed by a lengthy run the next morning.