Several months ago, I took it upon myself to complete the 4x4x48 challenge. For the uninitiated, this challenge was created by former Navy SEAL David Goggins to test both physical and mental endurance. It consists of twelve four-mile runs in four-hour increments: four miles every four hours for forty-eight hours. You don’t get much sleep,Continue reading “The 4x4x48 Challenge: An Ultramarathon in Bite-Size Pieces”
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50K is the New Marathon
In a moment last week unlike any other in this new age of running, we experienced something truly awe-inspiring and inherently motivating. We already knew Desiree Linden was a beast. For the uninitiated, Linden’s resume includes two stints representing the United States at the Olympics (2012 and 2016). In 2018 she became the first AmericanContinue reading “50K is the New Marathon”