In college, I came across a book about long-distance running called Ultramarathon Man. The author, Dean Karnazes, was a runner throughout his childhood and into his teens, before taking a long break ...

What does one do after one has run 50 marathons, in 50 states, in 50 consecutive days? Well, if you are longtime Ross resident and ultramarathoner extraordinaire Dean Karnazes, you have a glass of ...

When ultrarunner Dean Karnazes needs a mental boost, he plugs in, powering up with a device that looks and feels like something from a science fiction movie. Karnazes connects to a mind-altering ...

Dean Karnazes’ fridge didn’t always look like a hijacked Whole Foods warehouse. In fact, if you’d looked inside the ultrarunner’s icebox five years ago, you would have discovered a very different ...

"I guess I gotta keep going or else it'll probably come back for me," Dean Karnazes told his followers in a video taken just moments after being attacked by a coyote on a 150-mile run Charmaine ...

Elite ultramarathon runner Dean Karnazes rang alarm bells when he shared a disturbing video he shot during a 150-mile endurance race last weekend. Breathless and bloodied, Karnazes said in the post ...

Dean Karnazes has done it all in the world of ultra running. From completing 50 marathons in 50 states over 50 consecutive days, to running 525 kilometers in central Asia along the Silk Road as an ...

As a boy growing up in San Clemente, Dean Karnazes was into volleyball and surfing. “I’m an avid surfer,” he said. “Who isn’t, in San Clemente?” Since then, he has conquered mountains, deserts, the ...

At about 3 a.m. on Saturday morning, August 13, ultramarathon icon Dean Karnazes, 59, plodded along by headlamp, alone, 40 miles into the 150-mile Marin Headlands Endurance Race near San Francisco, ...

Dean Karnazes has rung up a staggering list of endurance accomplishments during his career. They include: winning the Badwater Ultramarathon (135 miles across Death Valley); a marathon to the South ...