«So it was a niche, and
in ultrarunning you have to have a niche to make any kind of money.
Freeman lets me in on one of the jokes
in ultrarunning, that it's «basically an eating and drinking contest with a little exercise and scenery thrown in.»
Not exact matches
A big
ultrarunning race usually includes only a few hundred participants, so they all tend to know each other, which is impossible
in a race of 20,000 half - marathoners.
Velasco himself carries a stuffed Curious George
in the front of his pack because he considers his addiction to
ultrarunning, which has trashed his right leg, a monkey on his back.
There's an element of Old West frontier myth associated with
ultrarunning, but it's underscored by the simple fact that a bunch of people set off to run
in the woods and one of them will finish before anyone else.