And the Winner Is...
Monday April 12, 1999 — 1:12 am (PST)
"This course would have been brutal at any altitude, rocky and treacherous most of the way, marathons just don't get any tougher..."

Dropping Like Flies
Thursday, April 8, 1999 — 9:58 pm (PST)
"We had to put a woman in a Gamov bag this morning who's suffering from acute mountain sickness..."

Miserable with Altitude Sickness
Wednesday, April 7, 1999 — 12:08 am (PST)
"Fellow American Jan Richardson and I spent the day laying around miserable with altitude sickness. Quite a blow to a couple a self professed hotshots like ourselves..."

Resting Pulses Rise
Saturday, April 3, 1999 — 6:54 pm (PST)
"Sergio is annoyed that his resting pulse has shot up to 61. Like everyone else he's used to something closer to 40..."

Process of Elimination
Saturday, April 3, 1999 — 1:55 am (PST)
"This afternoon we huffed and puffed our way along the last six miles of the race course..."

Day Nine at Namche Bazaar
Friday, April 2, 1999 — 3:38 am (PST)
"We decided to hike only a half day and spend the afternoon relaxing, except by mid afternoon most were out on the trail running..."

Fun Runs & Drunken Card Games
Monday, March 29, 1999 — 11:27pm (PST)
"With this group, daylong grinds up and down the mountains are followed by an evening run before dinner..."

Into Clean Air
Monday, March 22, 1999 — 12am (PST)
"Our band of marathoners has deserted jobs and families for a month simply to run a trail among the peaks. Except we have been in Kathmandu for three days and haven't seen any mountains. The air is that bad..."