Beyond the Epic Run – 5 Years Around the World
Found at SOA World: “Beyond the Epic Run” is the inspiring true story of ultra runner, Serge, and his wife Nicole Roetheli, who sold all of their belongings to run more than 25,000 miles around the world in f[...]
Blind explorer reaches South Pole
On January 4th six three-man teams set off in the South Pole Race. One of the athlete’s, from Northern Ireland, 32 year old Mark Pollock has become the first blind person to reach the South Pole. The Telegraph quot[...]
Christian McEvoy – Coast to Coast
Endurance Radio interviewed Christian McEvoy who is running across the U.S. continent rasing money for cancer survivors. Christian began his run in San Francisco, California on July 1, 2006 covering about 20 miles a day [...]
Dean Karnazes 50/50/50
7 DOWN, 43 TO GO… Lincoln Marathon Number of Runners: 21 Time: 4:15:34 Weather: 64 degrees, partly cloudy So begins yesterdays posting on Deans Blog. Already it seems, Dean is finding patterns in his experience. Re[...]
Dean Karnazes Bails on the Road
Today’s post on Dean Karnazes blog details his decision to fly back home to Calfornia: SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Last month, in New York City, I made a fairly insane and irrational decision, to run across the country. To[...]
Dean Karnazes finishes 50/50/50
Dean Karnazes completed his epic journey of running 50 marathons in 50 states in 50 days with a 3 hour performance at the New York City Marathon yesterday with an official time of 3:00:30. Like Sam Thompson, who ran 51/5[...]
Guest Blogger – Inside My Heart – Chanakhya Jakovic
First posted on the Bravenet blog: Wednesday, October 19th 2005 The Guest Blogger spot is open to anyone with some experience in this field who has a story, some advice or even relevant news. Here to inaugurate this spec[...]
Marathon Monks of Mount Hiei
Posted on the Ultralist: Mike Chiorazzi Long ultra quote (and you think you’re an extreme runner!): There is an order of Buddhist monks in Japan whose practice is running. They are called the Marathon Monks of Moun[...]
Renata Chlumska – 439 Days Around The USA By Kayak And Bike
Posted on the Ultralist: Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 09:59:44 -0700 From: Martha Subject: Ultra-kayaking (Non-Ultrarunning Content) For those interested in adventure and/or Everest articles: One woman’s amazing journey [...]
Rosie Swale Pope Completes Journey Around The World
Rosie Swale Pope has returned home after a 5 year epic adventure circling the world to raise money for charity and also raise awareness about cancer. Having suffered several broken bones, frostbite, pneumonia, curious be[...]
The Genius of Ultrarunning – David Blaikie
Perhaps the genius of ultrarunning is its supreme lack of utility. It makes no sense in a world of space ships and supercomputers to run vast distances on foot. There is no money in it and no fame frequently not even the[...]
The World Harmony Run Reaches Wales
The World Harmony Run, a global initiative to promote the idea of Harmony by running from country to country carrying a Torch has arrived in Wales after paaing through Northern Ireland and Eire. Making it’s way to [...]
Together We Run
John Wallace III recently finished a trans-USA crossing and now his parents have embarked on a campaign of their own, already on Day 46. John writes: Many of you may be independently receiving emails from my folks but if[...]
Ultra Legends – Running Monks In Asia
Phil Essam, former webmaster and creator of PlanetUltramarathon is hard at work developing his new site, Ultra Legends, a treasure trove of the deeds and achievements of yesteryear. Phil drew my attention back to Don Dav[...]
Views From The Ocean – Pete Stringer
Views From The Ocean – Reflections on The Self-Transcendence Races 2009 Posted on the Ultralist: From: Pete Stringer To: ultra@listserv.dartmouth.edu Subject: views from the ocean Date: Wed 13 May 2009 05:54:35 -04[...]
World Run 2
Jesper Olsen, keen to get back out on the road is planning another feat of running longevity. “The route will in general lead from the Northern point of Scandinavia and in Europe to the Southern tip of Africa. Afte[...]
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Hydration Strategies For Ultrarunners
Hydration Strategies for Ultrarunners It is only in the last 30 years that serious consideration has been given to how much fluid a runner needs to hydrate for an ultramarathon. Before that time, most people who ran marathons and ultramarathons were elite runners who would usually finish a marathon around the 3 hour mark and [...]
Inspiration – Making Dreams A Reality
Making Dreams Come True. One of the things that motivated me to create multidays.com was the idea that we can do much more than we think we can. It seems that our perspective of the world is constrained and limited in some ways. We have the thought “I couldn’t do that” or “I could do [...]
