Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner

227 Pages·2005·1.97 MB·English

by  Dean Karnazes

Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication

Part One
Chapter 1 - The Long Road to Santa Cruz
Chapter 2 - The Formative Years
Chapter 3 - Run with Your Heart
Chapter 4 - Run for Your Life
Chapter 5 - The Soiling of the Lexus
Chapter 6 - Leaving Normal
Chapter 7 - Over the Mountains and Through the Woods
Chapter 8 - King of Pain
Chapter 9 - Into Darkness
Chapter 10 - Forever Changed

Part Two
Chapter 11 - Badwater
Chapter 12 - Frozen Stiff
Chapter 13 - The Ultra-Endurance World
Chapter 14 - The Relay
Chapter 15 - Crossing Over
Chapter 16 - Team Dean
Chapter 17 - Run for the Future
Chapter 18 - The Gift of Life

Epilogue
Appendix - Food Log from The Relay
Acknowledgements
Worldwide Acclaim for Dean Karnazes and
Ultramarathon Man:
“The perfect escapist fantasy for couch potatoes and weekend warriors
alike.”—Kirkus Reviews

“Dean’s masochism is a reader’s pleasure.”—Publishers Weekly

“Makes the extraordinary look easy.”—GQ

“Iron man Dean Karnazes is no mere mortal.”—Time

“There is clearly something Nietzschean in Karnazes’ makeup . . . that whatever
doesn’t kill you makes you strong.”
—Los Angeles Times

“Fascinating.”—Sports Illustrated

“Full of euphoric highs.”—The New York Times

“Jaw-dropping.”—Sam Fussell, author of Muscle

“Buzz book.”—People
“The indefatigable man.”—Esquire

“Passionate.”—San Francisco Chronicle

“Karnazes is revolutionizing [ultrarunning], inspiring many weekend warriors to
take it up a notch. . . . Money and fame aside, Karnazes [is] motivated by primal
need more than anything else.”—Outside “Eye-popping.”—The Associated
Press

“Run, Karnazes, run!”—FHM

“Ultra-inspirational.”—Odyssey (Greece)

“[Dean is] like a comic-book superhero who remains undercover by day, every
bit the unremarkable family man.”
—The London Daily Telegraph

“A real-life Forrest Gump. . . . [Karnazes] has pushed his body to limits that are
beyond masochistic. They’re inhuman.”
—Newsday

“Super-human.”—The Boston Globe

“Superstar.”—The Oregonian
“Superman.”—Gazzetta dello Sport Week (Italy)

“Ultrarunning legend.”—Men’s Journal

“The ultimate ultrarunning specimen.”—Runner’s World

“One of the sexiest men in sports.”—Sports Illustrated Women

“The undisputed king of the ultras, who has not only pushed the envelope but
blasted it to bits.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer

“A ‘short’ run with Dean could land you far from home.”
—The Washington Post

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This book is dedicated
to my sister, Pary,
who always encouraged
me to follow my heart.
Part One
Chapter 1
The Long Road to Santa Cruz
Sleep is for wimps.
—Christopher Gaylord,
underground ultra-endurance legend