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Karnazes, 42, who now plans to go 300 miles nonstop, lays claim in his lively new autobiography, Ultramarathon Man, which will be published next month, to being the ultra of the ultramarathoners. That is a cultish group of athletes, many in their 40s, for whom a marathon just isn't challenging or interesting enough. If 36,000 people finished the New York City Marathon last year, how hard could it be? The ultras race over hill and dale in 50- to 100-mile painfests, like the Western States 100 and the Leadville Trail 100. Says John Medinger, 54, an investment...
People who run distances they ought to be driving aren't necessarily superior athletes. They are actually a bit freaky physically, born with the kind of biomechanics that can take repeated pounding. At 5-ft. 9-in. and 155 lbs., Karnazes isn't built like those marathon beanpoles. His frame is rock solid, the result of a cross-training routine that includes windsurfing to build upper-body strength, which helps him in the long runs. But even with the right genes and conditioning, ultras can count on plenty of joint pain, cramps, exhaustion and vomiting...
...double feature, talking down the stars onscreen. At about 2 a.m. he would propose, as if spontaneously, "Let's go and get something to eat." No one said no. Everyone would ride 10 miles to Stalin's dacha at Kuntsevo and begin another of the booze-fogged, terror-soaked marathon predawn dinners that the Minister of Cultural Terror, Yury Zhdanov, had convinced Stalin were the equivalent of the symposia of the ancient Greeks. "These vomit-flecked routs," the British biographer Simon Sebag Montefiore observes in Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (Knopf; 785 pages), "were the closest [Stalin] came...
...work on the story and script during the spring and summer. In the fall, the show is cast and developed; professional contractors help to create costumes and sets, to coach the singers, and to ready the orchestra. The entire HPT company stays at Harvard over intersession break for marathon 14-hour rehearsals. The Woman and Man of the Year happens almost as an afterthought, the roast written late at night in the weeks before the celebrities’ arrivals...
Grigg’s marathon 3-2 win over Quibell, 10-8, 3-9, 10-9, 2-9, 9-7, set the stage for next week’s potential rematch. While pleased with her individual win, she spoke to the Crimson’s ability to disprove doubts that it could pose a true challenge to Yale...