What makes General Petraeus tick:

"General Petraeus tends to attract people who value competition--not ultimately competition for itself, but for what it produces. General Petraeus is in a deadly serious business, and he's made a habit of prevailing by ensuring he's on the side with the better ideas, the more resilient troops, the clearer-headed and more creative leaders, and the tighter-knit and more determined units. Competition is one of the main engines for all of these things.

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Of the 21 soldiers who began the 5.7-mile loop, only four (including Nordby and Martins) hang with Petraeus to the finish. He comes in at a pace under six minutes per mile, impressive for a guy with a metal plate in his pelvis and a gunshot wound on his chest (courtesy of a training accident).

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Petraeus Iraq runner