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Running man's ambitious plan

Dean Karnazes insists he's not crazy. He just loves to run. A lot. This fall, the 43-year-old long distance runner will tackle one marathon a day for 50 consecutive days, running a total 1,310 miles in 50 days, says a Reuters report. And for each 26.2-mile race, Karnazes and his family of four will travel to a different U.S. state. Arguably the world's best-known ultramarathoner, Karnazes has already run 350 miles in one stretch, run a marathon in the South Pole, and raced across the California desert in the middle of the summer. With this fall's challenge, however, Karnazes said he is going a step further in testing the human body's limits. "I'm curious to see what the limits of human endurance are," he said in an interview. "I still haven't found them." To train, Karnazes said he logs anywhere from 80 to 175 miles of running a week around his home in San Francisco.

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