Word: ultramarathon
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Karnazes, 42, who now plans to go 300 miles nonstop, lays claim in his lively new autobiography, Ultramarathon Man, which will be published next month, to being the ultra of the ultramarathoners. That is a cultish group of athletes, many in their 40s, for whom a marathon just isn't challenging or interesting enough. If 36,000 people finished the New York City Marathon last year, how hard could it be? The ultras race over hill and dale in 50- to 100-mile painfests, like the Western States 100 and the Leadville Trail 100. Says John Medinger, 54, an investment...
Hughes runs his experiments in the rugged, volcanic Jemez mountains that surround Los Alamos--which, as an ultramarathon runner, he knows intimately. He sets up a laser and fires a burst of light so precise it consists of a single photon. The photon flies at (what else?) the speed of light to a finely calibrated receiver 2 km away, which collects it like a catcher snagging a Randy Johnson fastball. By sending a series of photons polarized at different angles, Hughes can transmit information: each particle represents a single bit--a 1 or a 0, in computer language...
...physical strains that the supposedly weaker sex is undergoing these days. Relax, fellas: there is little to be concerned about. Women are well suited to take part in rugged athletics. Indeed, women hold many long-distance swimming records for both sexes and have run men into the ground during ultramarathon races 50 miles long. Says Dr. Joan Ullyot, a physiologist at San Francisco's Institute of Health Research and a world-class marathoner herself: "The evidence suggests that women are tougher than...
Probably the sex gap is unclosable in the marathon, but in the ultramarathon distances of 50 to 100 miles, women's lightness and endurance may be a commanding advantage, and a woman has been an overall winner in a West Coast 100-mile ultramarathon...