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How does one make the Olympic Marathon squad?
How does one make the Olympic Marathon squad?
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Pre Women's Recap!
Pre Women’s Recap!
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Pre Men's Recap!
Pre Men’s Recap!
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Are you a big ultra fan who is unhappy with the races we selected? Well, that’s ok and actually one of the best most appealing aspects of the ultra world.
Are you a big ultra fan who is unhappy with the races we selected? Well, that’s ok and actually one of the best most appealing aspects of the ultra world.
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On the women’s side, however, we do have a G.O.A.T. — American Ann Trason.
On the women’s side, however, we do have a G.O.A.T. — American Ann Trason.
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Dean Dean the Lying Machine
An excerpt from a popular running bulletin board:
jjjjjjjjjj: Hey I found it! He ran the 2:16 in the same race Dean Karnazes ran his 2:39 :)
pnw runner: Dean Karnazes claims to have run a 2:39?
Penguin Group publishing-house fact-checkers: Now, THERE'S a guy who deserves to be called a liar. When Karnazes' book Ultramarathon Man was being published at Penguin Group, USA, it happened to be assigned to a copyeditor (me) who'd run for a high school in the same league as his at the same time that he was there. Karnazes is the James Frey of sports books. The number of false claims was astounding--I mean, every third line was a lie. I had to ask the publisher how exactly to handle it. An unusually thorough fact-checking procedure was used, and so many distortions and inventions had to be deleted that the book must've shrunk by thirty pages. It was good luck for Dean; the attacks on him here and elsewhere would've been even harsher if all that BS had made it into print. (He was lucky that his editor made him sound like a nice guy and gave him a sense of humor, too.)
pnw runner: Ooo, juicy. Do you remember some of the things that didn't make it into the book? I'm sure a lot of us would get a kick out of them.
Penguin Group publishing-house fact-checkers: My personal favorite was when he called our varsity cross-country league finals "the pinnacle of high school competition." It was a race among six teams, the top three of which would qualify for the state's southern-section prelims, at which the top five in each race would make the section finals, at which a few would qualify for the State Meet--three very large steps closer to the "pinnacle," which would only be reached at the Kinney (now Foot Locker) national championship race, of course.
The league finals story is hilariously exaggerated even in its expurgated final form. Here's an excerpt--he's a freshman asked to run varsity for the big championship race. He goes out "behind my two strongest teammates" in "a secondary cluster of runners." Approaching the finish, two guys pass him, they form "a solid wall" ahead of him, and one elbows him in the nose. "The finish line was now 300 yards away. People on both sides of the course were yelling, "GO, KARNO, GO!" "To hell with their blockade," I thought to myself. "If they won't let me pass, I'll run right through them!" Which he does, of course. He doesn't provide an actual finishing place; he probably didn't count on the copyeditor having the race result sheet in a drawer. He was 30th in a field of 42--not bad for a freshman, but nowhere near good enough for Ultramarathon Man. We did stop him from referring to a great many "wins" in events that he'd set up himself and in which he was the only entrant, but we had no way to debunk his claim that he finished his solo Hood-to-Coast run--195 miles--with a final mile in under 6:00. One more excerpt, from near the end of that event: "A small crowd of runners assembled around me. 'Are you TEAM DEAN?' someone asked. I couldn't answer for a long, awkward moment. And then I said softly, 'Yes, I am Team Dean.'" Talk about "fawning love sonnets"--at least I didn't write any to myself! Now, please let me put this book away for the next fifty years or so.
