Redefining
I remember hearing about Dean Karnazes sometime in the last 10-12 years. A high energy jumping jack type on late night tv talking about running 50 marathons in 50 states, in 50 days. I had never been exposed to any road or trail runners growing up in my family or any family friends for that matter. I only knew of running through track, football, olympic sprinters and a few mid distance runners. Anything beyond the mile lap was "endurance running" to me. Dean Karnazes though was a type of runner I never knew existed. I like to believe that I helped play a role in the pioneering of youtube and the now famous google search to be what it is today. I began searching the blogs, surfing youtube, and reading about runners that run distances farther than a marathon, some even up to 100 miles and beyond. I am sorry, what? I like many others immediately dismissed this as bullshit, and wondered, "and they don't die, how?" Yet, it was captivating. A natural react