He said he didn’t mind holding my voice recorder while we ran because he is accustomed to dictating into a recorder during long runs. Our plan was to do an interview while running up some fire trails on the east side of Mount Tamalpais. The stretching movements on his 5’9″ frame made his veins pop and muscles flex in heightened definition under his tan, taut and seemingly hairless skin. Karnazes wore running shorts, a singlet emblazoned with his main sponsor, The North Face, and a backpack to carry stuff, since he literally runs errands around town.
“I was clenching my teeth and literally made them crooked, and my jaw started hurting,” he explained. Long stretches of his 40- to 50-mile daily runs were along a narrow highway shoulder with big rigs repeatedly zooming by and honking. His wife, Julie, a dentist, installed them after his 75-day, nearly 3000-mile run from Los Angeles to New York dubbed the “Run Across America,” that he completed last spring. His smile revealed tiny, barely visible white hooks on a couple of teeth, which are part of his concealed orthodontia, odd for someone his age-he turned 49 last August. Then he started doing squats and calf stretches. “That’s OK, I’m good,” he said with a big grin that cut across his long, square-jawed face. America’s most famous ultrarunner ran up to meet me in a park near his home in Ross, a quaint and affluent town north of San Francisco, and politely declined to sit at my side on a bench. How Dean Karnazes became the biggest celebrity in ultrarunning – and where he’s running nextĭean Karnazes does not sit still. Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members!
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