The 6-Day Race Walked So Ultramarathons Could Run

The 6-Day Race Walked So Ultramarathons Could Run

Listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. Dylan Thuras: It was around midnight on March 10th, 1879, and a crowd was gathering outside Madison Square Garden, back when it was called Gilmore’s Garden. And they were all there for an event, a kind of race. And in the days leading up to it, newspapers and magazines had been stirring up the excitement. So when the day finally arrived, people were ready. The race was …

The Author Who Ran an Ultramarathon to Write a Thriller

We’ve all heard of ‘method acting’. That breed of actor who dives deep into their personal experiences to bring their characters to life. Think Dustin Hoffman staying awake for three days and nights on the set of Marathon Man or Leonardo de Caprio sleeping inside animal carcasses and eating raw bison for The Revenant. So what about ‘method authoring’?  Like running over one hundred and fifty-six miles through the world’s biggest desert all for t…