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Articles by Dean Karnazes

Named by TIME magazine as one of the “Top 100 Most Influential People in the World,” Dean Karnazes is a passionate ultrarunner and extreme athlete. He’s run across the Sahara in 120-degree temperatures, and he’s run a marathon to the South Pole in negative 40 degrees. On ten different occasions he’s run a 200-mile relay race solo, racing alongside teams of twelve. Dean has swum the San Francisco Bay, scaled mountains, bike raced for 24-hours straight, and surfed the gigantic waves off the coast of Northern California and Hawaii. He lives with his wife and family in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Techpocalypse Now

I just returned from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where I glimpsed into the future. And there ain’t nothin’ left to hide. The number of training sensors, monitors, probes and trackers is revealing (or e...

Inspiration Never Rusts

The word inspiration has almost become cliché these days. It’s so overused the true meaning has been diluted and cheapened. Yet there’s no denying that the words others say to us can have the power to, well, inspire....

Spartathalon

The Next Step | Dog Gone (Not!)

THE NEXT STEP | Wunderkind

Crawl if you Must

What a Mother!

Going Abo

Pushing Through the Lows

Passsing the Buck

Movies that Inspire

What Will They Think of Next?

I have just returned from die Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, and I have seen the future. Yes, it’s true, truth can be stranger than fiction (er...stranger than science-fiction in this case). The big buzz...

The Next Step: Are You Tough Enough?

Stepping Up To Ultra

Rehydration Matters

I couldn't get out of my sleeping bag. The zipper wasn’t locked, but my muscles were. The scenario was bleak. I could barely crawl out of bed, how was I possibly going to run a 100K? And not just any 100K, but one...

A Funky Spin On Training For Your First Ultra

Canadian Death Race

Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All Night Runner