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Lead Stories: Sunday, September 7, 2008

Runners Needed for Record-Breaking Documentary

Posted April 8th, 2008 at 2:05 PM by Adam Jacobs

Section: News & Results, Marathons, Motivation, Movies

This June, Running the Sahara’s Charlie Engle and Marshall Ulrich are going to set off on their record-breaking run from San Francisco to New York. Their journey will be filmed and crafted into a historical documentary entitled Running America. NEHST is currently casting runners to join these athletes as they make history and raise money toward the water crisis in Africa.

If casted, you are only allowed to run one mile with Charlie and Marshall, but you can drop back and continue to run if you’d like. Anyone is eligible for submissions, no matter how young, old, disabled or experienced you may be. This is a great opportunity to be in front of cameras, meet some celebrities and be a part of history. To register for your chance to be a part of history, visit screentest.biz.

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“The Wisdom of Experience” Puts Masters Athletes In Front

Posted October 21st, 2007 at 8:45 PM by Jimmie R. Markham

Section: News & Results, Motivation, Famous Quotes, Trail / Ultra, Masters

The Denver Post has published an article giving masters athletes a little well-deserved publicity. Along with several masters athletes, the ageless ultrarunner Marshall Ulrich is featured in the article, as is Chris Carmichael, Lance Armstrong’s trainer, who said that history is witnessing a new phenomenon of athletes who train and compete over the course of a lifetime. Carmichael says, “they just keep on going. They just keep on getting more efficient with their use of oxygen. After years and years of aerobic training and competing, they are, in a sense, smarter athletes.”

Ulrich, 56-years-old and the four-time winner of Badwater, perhaps the pinnacle of extreme sports, said – after being in last place 40 miles into this year’s 135 Badwater race – was finally worried about being too old bu then realized that, “I had to give myself a little talk and say, ‘So what?’ I had to stop feeling sorry for myself. So I’m suffering. Big deal. I expect to suffer, and really, I just don’t care. You have to remember you always come back.”
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