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...What a wuss. For today's extreme-endurance athletes, Pheidippides' fatal exertion would be a gentle warm-up. The real challenge is found in ultramarathons - races of up to 100 km (62 miles) or even farther, often over the kind of rough terrain that would make the average jogger hang up his sneakers in horror. Ultrarunners endure cramps, blisters, dehydration and the occasional exhaustion-induced hallucination. Why? All for the pleasure of more running. "It's a desire to go beyond your comfort level and test your own boundaries," says Dean Karnazes, champion ultrarunner and author of the best-selling...
...land where history is slow to evaporate, the events that unfolded in Northern Ireland's Maze prison in 1981 still hang thick in the air. i.r.a. prisoners, who were demanding political instead of criminal status, began a series of hunger strikes to get it. The British government refused to budge. So, one by one, 10 men starved themselves to death. The macabre drama was a low point of mutual, willful intransigence in the battle between the British state and Irish republicanism, and provoked the province to some of its worst bloodshed. The ghost of Bobby Sands, the first...
...anyone has changed their profile in the past 15 minutes), but before I do, I’d like once more to encourage the following kind of thinking: it’s Friday and your exams don’t actually start for nearly a week. Go out, hang out with your friends, put off your work a bit longer so that I can catch up, and remember when you get back that the online version of beer pong (http://www.2flashgames.com/f/f-593.htm) is almost as much fun as the real thing...
There are also adult students with families living as far away as Cape Cod who commute to and from the university every day, Dingman adds. For them, he explains, it is a huge relief to be affiliated with Dudley, which gives them somewhere to relax and hang out in between classes...
...something similar. Here is an event where scrawny and studly, fat and misshapen, pock-marked and smooth, black and white can run together. We run not as isolated students, but as unique participants in an elite unit who have thrown social mores to the wind and let it all hang out. There is no public humiliation—the group protects the individuals. Primal Scream helped me realize the strength of community—and discovering that piece of veritas was certainly worth a frozen teste...