“Sometimes it’s just having the discipline to say I'm going to go on my run today or I’m going to do my workout today.” “It’s almost like a Zen-like state where you’re just hyper aware of your environment but you’re very much present.”Ī lot of running is making yourself do something you don’t want to do, he says.
When ultramarathon running, all you think about is the here and now, he says. “What I think happens is we lose all the layers and all the baggage around us until we’re just at our elemental self and we’re in the here and now, in the present moment of time.”
He soundly believes that only in discomfort do you find who you are. To me, pushing through those low moments is such an awakening, because what emerges is a better version of you.” “You’re forced to confront yourself and your limitations. He’s run across the hottest place on earth, Death Valley, in the summer and in the coldest place on earth, the South Pole.įew other sports hold a mirror up to you the way running does, Karnazes says. His achievements in running are a testament to the sheer power of human endurance and include running 50 marathons in 50 states in 50 consecutive days, and running a mind-boggling 560 kilometres in 81 hours without sleep. In the years since, he has been described as the fittest man on the planet. I found the man that I am and that man is an athlete and a runner and I decided to quit my lucrative corporate job and pursue a career as an athlete.”
“That drunken night forever changed the course of my life. I became a runner, I decided that’s what I was at heart. That is until the night of his 30th birthday, when Karnazes ran 30 miles while drunk in silk boxer shorts. He ran up until the age of 15, when he grew bored of it. “I remember distinctly how I felt and how it made me feel alive and in touch with the world and the environment.” One of Karnazes’ earliest memories is as 5-year-old child, running home from kindergarten.
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