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...marathon originates from the legend of an Athenian messenger named Pheidippides, who ran 25 miles home to deliver news of a great victory in the battle of Marathon, then dropped dead from exhaustion. 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...
There is still time before I need to warm-up, so I try to dig deeper into my store of baseball memories. Now it’s August of 1992, and I’m on vacation at the beach, watching Kevin Gross of the Dodgers throw a no-hitter against the Giants. I had no idea at the time, but I was truly witnessing history—Gross became the first of three pitchers named Kevin to no-hit the Giants in the 1992-2003 period, the other two being Brown and Millwood...
Wearing a blue warm-up jacket with the words “Team Dunster-Mather” embroidered in white, the man known as “Grill Master Phil” takes the number 1 bus from his home in Roxbury to Harvard Square every day, even to pick up his Friday paycheck...
Other teams often use their warm-up time to intimidate their competitors, executing huge jumps or stunts to show off their most impressive parts of the dance as rival squads prepare to go before the judges...
After he dangerously sailed one of the first pitches of his warm-up over the fence, the answer—all quickly discovered—was “very...