more on Karnazes

60 Minutes had a segment on my new hero, Dean Karnazes:

It is hard to believe, as is just about everything these ultra-marathoners do. When Karnazes trains, he’s out the door before dawn, running through the city streets, over the Golden Gate Bridge and into the hills.

It’s believed that Karnazes has run farther than any other living person — 262 miles in 76 hours. That’s three days without sleep. But this is actually his hobby. He’s president of a health food company, and sometimes, he even does his business in the middle of a run.

At the 20-mile mark, Karnazes stopped at a 7-Eleven and he wasn’t the least bit out of breath. “I usually can go maybe 10 hours without feeling too much,” says Karnazes. “And then, after that, it goes downhill.”

At this stop, Karnazes only bought coffee. But on runs where he can burn up to 30,000 calories, he’s been known to down an entire cheesecake. And get this: He’s even ordered in.

“I run with a credit card and a cell phone, so when there is not a 7-Eleven around, like some of the country roads out there, I can get him to deliver a pizza to me. And I kind of give them a coordinate, a corner,” says Karnazes. “It happens quite often, actually.”