If you've heard of Collins outside the clannish world
of ultrarunning it's because of his cannabis advocacy.
Timothy Olson, who holds the course record to the Western States 100, one
of ultrarunning's most prestigious events, was a drug addict.
It's chilly near the start of the Run - de-Vous, one of the hundreds
of ultrarunning races that take place every year, but seven volunteers are working like the dwarves pounding packs of ice on the pavement and shuffling the broken cubes and sponges into buckets of water.
Not exact matches
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.»
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.
«So it was a niche, and in
ultrarunning you have to have a niche to make any kind
of money.
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