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I’m one of those people who will tell you that a river trip in the Grand Canyon changed her life. Last May, after joining a friend’s 50th birthday celebration on a guided rafting trip on the upper portion of the canyon, I paddled, mesmerized by the spectacular shades of red and orange rock walls towering above me, their layers telling stories of geology, history, and the

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The Willy Wonka of the running world is walking down the sidewalk of a sprawling office park, taking a new shoe for a ride. “First there are little movements that help us notice the feeling,” he says in a thick French accent. Jean-Luc Diard, 65, is the mastermind and cofounder of the wildly successful running brand Hoka and—as he does almost every day—he’s testing another

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While he was scrambling down from a local peak on May 23, 2015, a loose rock sent him crashing 50 feet down a wall of scree before landing on his left leg and smashing the tibia into eight pieces. That was just the first strike against it.

The second was that the 300-pound rock that had snapped his tibia like kindling also tore his skin open as it landed. A friend at the scene described it as “bones sticking out everywhere.” Muscle and bone were open to the elements, leading to a ceaseless stri

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Inspired by a flubbed prison escape, the Barkley Marathon is a ludicrously challenging 100-mile race only a handful of runners have completed. Finishing it twice? That's next to impossible.

It's reverently quiet when Jared Campbell comes running down the trail and into camp. He’s looked better. For one thing, his facial muscles appear to be asleep, even as he somehow keeps moving. He’s wilted from hours of exposure to the cold and