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How I Became Gary Fanelli, Part 2

How | Became Gary Fanelli And got myself to the ‘88 Olympic Marathon. Part 2 of 4. Games after I watched the Mexico City Olympics on TV when I was 17; 1 was truly inspired! I had run track on my CYO [Catholic Youth Organization] team from ages 10 to 13.1 worked hard at running, … Read more

Musings Of An Accidental Ultramarathoner

We learn as much in the wake of a race as we do while running it. n the late fall of 2012, at the age of 41, I ended up running my first ultramarathon. It was the New York Road Runners 60K contained wholly in Central Park, which translated to running the middle four-mile oval … Read more

And It Ends With A Wedding

Celebrating the diamond jubilee of Hillary and Norgay with a marathon. can think of no other races that involve a two-week trek just to get to the starting point. When I chose to do the Tenzing-Hilary Everest Marathon—celebrating the 60 years since Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary climbed Mount Everest—I had no idea what … Read more

The Hard Way

<4 Steve, on his way to running a new vet masters world record for the fastest 10 marathons in 10 days. of Indian ancestry, Sy Mah, who had completed 500 marathons in an average time of between 3:40 and four hours. “T felt this was something I could potentially achieve, something for me in my … Read more

Fifty Shades Of Leadville

Very much inside a 100-mile trail run. eadville 100-Mile endurance run: just before 4:00 a.o., Saturday, August 18, 2012 This was my first time, and I was scared. It was dark, 37 degrees, and there were just over 800 of us lined up for the start of “the Race Across the Sky,” the 30th running … Read more

The Art Of Ultrarunning

Make of your race something special. “A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected by in as many ways as they’re capable of understanding.” —Steve Prefontaine work I like. His paintings, drawings, and performances explore the masculine identity in his own life and in his Latin culture, in … Read more

George Littlewood

Super pedestrian. t’s called multiday racing today. However, 150 years ago it was called long-distance pedestrianism, and the man who inspired the blue-ribbon event in the sport, the six-day race, was the then-incredibly famous American “walkist” from Providence, Rhode Island, Edward Payson Weston. The world-famous sporting superstar was just 40 years old in 1879 when, … Read more

Going Far, Part 11

Heat or cold, rain or snow, the run must go on. Part 11. 46. The heat OSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, April 1976. The running body is a great furnace but a poor air conditioner. The activity and the clothing warm us on the coldest days but overheat us on the hottest no matter how much we strip … Read more

My Most Unforgettable Ultramarathon (Vol. 18, No. 3)

(And what | learned from it.) empty expressway, with no exits until Salt Lake City, Utah. The downloaded directions to the 2009 Wasatch Front 100-mile footrace that I was reading with my headlamp assumed we were driving north, not south as we were. The race began at 5:00 a.m. I recognized a cross street and … Read more

First And Last Miles

Early and late in the marathon requires completely different approaches. very elite runner has certain physical and mental benchmarks, checkpoints, F and strategic goals that can add up to a successful race. On paper, it always works. In training, it always fits. In a race, it’s always a mystery. The master plan that each athlete … Read more

Questions

e g ‘a e 6. How can bicycling be used to supplement marathon training? There is good research to show correlation between bike fitness and run fitness, but less so in the reverse. It is possible, in other words, to maintain some running ability through cycling. Again, aerobic fitness is the cornerstone for most of … Read more

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