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...body fat, since women, even athletic and fit women, have more stores to pull from. Guys have about 6% body fat, while women will carry about 12%." The calculus of human exertion, however, is working against all the contestants. Adventure racers typically burn as much as 500 calories an hour, but the body running full steam can process only about 300 calories an hour. Contrary to what you might think, at this level of exertion the last thing racers want to do is eat. "We try to force ourselves to eat small amounts every single hour the whole entire race...
...year and a half ago, the mayor, the police chief and eight other men from this Arkansas town of 819, an hour's drive north of Little Rock, were called up for duty in Iraq by the Arkansas National Guard; one more was called by the Air Force Reserve. It was a blow not just to the weekend warriors-who were more accustomed to tornado cleanup than fighting-but to their families and Bradford's civic life as well. The town's big projects-to update the water system, jail the local methamphetamine dealers and make a clean sweep...
...Sunset is good for beginners?albeit beginners with a very high level of fitness. Karnazes, who commonly does 80-km training runs before going to work (he operates a natural-foods business), says the key is to extend your range. "You want to go out for five-, six-, seven-hour runs, just feeling what it's like to be on your feet that long." But the most important training is mental. Ultramarathoners must be prepared to push through the wall of exhaustion, over and over again. "The human body can only carry you so far," Karnazes concedes. "After that...
...daily meetings with political groups, NGOs, and the authorities to discuss turnout and crowd control. She'd dash from the printers, where she would vet T shirts, to subway stations to distribute pamphlets. Food was an afterthought?takeaway noodles or a steamed pork bun on the run. Hung's hours paid off. The rallies on July 1 in 2003 and '04 both drew a mix of half a million marchers?workers, professionals, businesspeople and just plain ordinary folk?vigorously protesting everything from China's interference in the territory to local government incompetence to the lack of free elections. This year...
...first mission was daunting: to scale a range of steep mountains and set up an observation point overlooking a road the Australians had dubbed Route Titanium, which large numbers of Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters were using as a way to the Pakistan border. After an eight-hour journey by truck, the men had just three hours to climb the mountain under cover of darkness. For the next three weeks, they lived off the land. The survival skills needed for such operations take years to acquire - and are the source of one SAS nickname, "the chicken stranglers." According...