I was first heard about Dean Karnazes while reading through a Runner's World magazine, they were doing a story about his latest accomplishment of running 50 Marathons in 50 Day in 50 States. The article was interesting, but it wasn't until a recent family vacation when I was talking to one of my cousins about Dean's book Ultra Marathon Man: Confession of an All-Night Runner, that I really got interested.
He was telling me about it and some of Dean's accomplishments and how inspiring he thought he book was. About a month after the vacation I was looking for an audio book to download, I like to listen to them during my commute to work, I came across Dean's book. I listen to the first four chapters and got motivated and went out for a run. I had only ran about 3 times in the past month and a half but I was still in fairly good shape from running a previous marathon in June.
I guess the runner's high and the inspiration from the book really motivated me and ended up going for 23.5 miles. I had to walk most of the last five miles, they were quite painful. But it was an amazing experience to be able to get a little glimpse of being able to push your body to do something you did not think you'd be able to do. Which is the theme of Dean's book, being able to achieve what is thought to be impossible and taking advantage of every second of life.
I strongly recommend this book and Dean has just published another book about his experience running 50 marathons on 50 days. Some of his next goals are to run 300 miles non-stop and run from L.A. to Hawaii in what looks to be a big inflatable hamster ball.
Dean's Website: www.ultramarathonman.com
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