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...Apart from the big, obvious things?love, death, children?most of the really walloping emotional highs and lows of my life have involved watching Liverpool. There was the ecstasy of being in the crowd when the club won the European championship in 1978, and the horror of settling down in my office for a 1985 European championship game?only to watch Juventus fans get crushed to death when some Liverpool supporters rioted. Through long experience, my family has come to know that their chances of having a vaguely pleasant husband and father on any given Sunday depend largely...
...extreme-endurance athletes, Pheidippides' fatal exertion would be a gentle warm-up. The real challenge is found in ultramarathons?races of up to 100 km (62 miles) or even farther, often over the kind of rough terrain that would make the average jogger hang up his sneakers in horror. Ultrarunners endure cramps, blisters, dehydration and the occasional exhaustion-induced hallucination. Why? All for the pleasure of more running. "It's a desire to go beyond your comfort level and test your own boundaries," says Dean Karnazes, champion ultrarunner and author of the best-selling memoir Ultramarathon...
...there's not enough of them around. Whether you like him or not, you have to be grateful he's there." Like him or not, LaBute isn't done exploring the dark side. He's now scouting out locations for his next project, a remake of the 1973 cult horror film The Wicker Man: "This time it's going to be less about religion and paganism and more about - surprise! - men and women." And he's still writing plays as feverishly as he did in college. There are no plans to slow down or go soft. "That's what...
...Apart from the big, obvious things - love, death, children - most of the really walloping, sock-in-the-stomach emotional highs and lows of my life have involved watching Liverpool. There was the ecstasy of being in the crowd when the club won the European championship in 1978, and the horror of settling down in my office for the 1985 championship game against Juventus, of Turin - and then watching Juventus fans get crushed to death when some Liverpool supporters rioted. Through long experience, my family has come to know that their chances of having a vaguely pleasant husband and father...
...extreme-endurance athletes, Pheidippides' fatal exertion would be a gentle warm-up. The real challenge is found in ultramarathons - races of up to 100 km (62 miles) or even farther, often over the kind of rough terrain that would make the average jogger hang up his sneakers in horror. Ultrarunners endure cramps, blisters, dehydration and the occasional exhaustion-induced hallucination. Why? All for the pleasure of more running. "It's a desire to go beyond your comfort level and test your own boundaries," says Dean Karnazes, champion ultrarunner and author of the best-selling memoir Ultramarathon...