‘Ultramarathon Man’: From tequila to Olympic torch
Posted On 4/19/2008 4:26:50 PM by runonearth
Dean Karnazes has come a long way since he hit a midlife crisis and had an epiphany at the bottom of a tequila bottle.
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Running Times Magazine: Motor City Marathoner
Posted On 8/18/2008 5:27:12 AM by TriFatlete
Brian Sell knows both the farmer’s and marathoner’s credos well. Growing up in rural south central Pennsylvania, he was surrounded by farmers, some of whom were his relatives, and learned early on their ethos of long days of hard work for often meager reward. “When I was 12 I worked at a YMCA day camp for $2 an hour, and the Y got half of that,” he says. Later, he got a summer job installing swimming pools. “There were a lot of 10-, 12-hour days,” he recalls. “You worked until the job got done.”
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