Envision celebrating your thirtieth birthday and getting a bit tipsy by nightfall. Not hard to imagine, right?
But, how about then deciding to go for a night run, from the bar, for thirty miles?
Well, that’s what Dean Karnazes did, and it changed his life, and a lot of others’ as well. Including mine.
Allow me to acquaint you with a highlight reel of some of Dean’s accomplishments:
Ran 350 miles in 80 hours and 44 minutes without sleep,
Completed “The Relay” (eleven times) which is a 200-mile relay race with teams of twelve, but Dean ran it solo,
Ran marathons to the South Pole in −13° temperatures, and I think at least part of one was in the nude, which we’ll get into,
Ran 50 marathons in 50 states in 50 consecutive days, finishing with the New York City Marathon, which he ran in three hours flat,
Won the infamous Badwater Ultramarathon, which is 135 miles across Death Valley in 120° temperatures in 2004, and has five other top-10 finishes between 2000 to 2008,
Won the Vermont Trail 100 Mile Endurance Run,
Was the Overall Winner in the 4 Deserts Race Series, traversing the Antacara, Gobi, Antarctica, and Sahara deserts,
