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...Amman Road Runners, a band of Jordanians and expats with a masochistic love of endurance running, devised the ultimate challenge: a race to the lowest point on earth. The 50-km Dead Sea Ultra Marathon begins at an elevation of 900 m and plunges through the desert to finish 400 m below sea level at the Dead Sea. Nearly 600 hardy souls are expected to compete in this year's run on Oct. 18. This official website has all the latest details as well as online registration for those not content just to float on the Dead...
...Stone Age ancestors certainly did not live in a feedlot. They had to kill and butcher their meat-on-the-hoof during marathon hunts that lasted for days, sometimes weeks. They had to ramble for miles cross-country to gather wild fruits, grains and nuts and to dig underground tubers. If they wanted to eat something sweet, they had to locate a beehive, smoke out the bees and retrieve the honey, often by climbing up a tree or chopping it down...
...Territories along the MacLehose Trail. But for solo souls willing to train with strangers, the event's website offers an online bulletin board that matches teams with new members. While billed as a walkathon, competition is fierce and many teams treat the fund raiser as an ultra marathon. Last year's fastest team, Montrail Protrek, set a new record, completing the 100-kilometer trek in just under 13 hours. Click on www.trailwalker.org.hk to learn more...
...passions long delayed. There is Hulda Crooks, 91, who has climbed 97 mountains since she turned 65, most recently Mount Fuji in Japan. And Dentist James Jay, 74, who finished, along with 51 other septuagenarians and four octogenarians, that 26-mile ribbon of pain, the New York City Marathon ... But these days, many of those over 65 who prepared themselves for a life of leisure found they were not cut out for it. For them, the greatest luxury of retirement is returning to work--on their own terms. Robert Pamplin, 76, former head of the Georgia-Pacific Corp., prudently began...
...statement is typical Mueller - who, despite his occasional taciturnity, does not hide from responsibility. This week, during his marathon appearances before a closed-door joint congressional committee and the Senate Judiciary Committee, Mueller seemed determined to maintain that lack of defensiveness. He sat quietly while the senators railed at him, and then calmly answered their questions. He was not there to tell us everything had been worked out, only to say that he, and many other people, were trying their darnedest to make things right...