Running 26.2 miles is a long way, as anyone who’s run a marathon will attest. However, running more than a marathon a day, for five days, in a hot country while climbing nearly 23,000 ft (7,000 meters) is something else.
And yet, for some reason, this is what I signed up for. In June I traveled to Tanzania to run more than 155 miles (250km), including halfway up Mount Kilimanjaro. Prior to the trip, my training ramped up, with weekend ultra-marathons becoming the norm—plus back-to-back days when I ran several marathons in a row.
