Endurance: December 2008 Archives

The strangest story in this LA Times article about endurance athletes who light up involves a smoker who lost a bet in the The Pikes Peak Marathon because he decided stop for a cigarette at the top. "In a recent online poll sponsored by Runner's World magazine, 2% of the 2,500 people who responded said they smoked, unbeknownst to their running friends. About 4% said they smoked but that their running
buddies were in the know."

"Four days and 263 miles into a backcountry race and Kathy Roche-Wallace isn't even halfway to the finish. She's limping on a big toe that is infected and swollen. She has a purple bruise the size of a grapefruit on her left thigh from a spill down a mountainside. Her sweat smells of vinegar and ammonia, a sign her fuel-starved body has started burning muscle."  Alexandra Alter writes about the popular 500-mile race through Montana's backcountry. In The Wall Street Journal.

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