Glen Schaffer, the Vida-Flo client who looks most likely to have just done an obstacle course marathon, says the relief he gets from an IV treatment is stronger, faster, and more palatable than if he were to down a few Gatorades after a workout.
For millions of miles we saw nothing, until suddenly there was the Hoover Dam, which holds most of the water Vegas uses for spurting fountains, canals, pristine green golf courses, marathon-length pools and misty spray.
From there it's on to Volpaia, one of Chianti's highest and most beautiful villages, before dawdling home as dusk falls for a four-bottle, eight-course marathon.
Our $120 prix fixe menu (or $155 if you want the 11-course marathon) started with a rich, almost mousselike crab cake, sweet and flavorful, with a crown of osetra caviar, ringed by caramelized onions.
This was not, of course, one marathon three-hour feeding frenzy, but several 10-20 minute feedings though the course of the day.
In addition to a start and finish at the park, the course takes marathon runners on a two-lap course of Anaheim.
When we finally finished at the trail's southern terminus at Cape Leeuwin lighthouse we treated ourselves to a three-hour, six-course gastronomic marathon at Voyager Estate Winery.
Gebrselassie still owns the NYC Half-Marathon course record (59 24), which he set in 2007, and the world marathon record (2 03:59), set at the Berlin Marathon in 2008.
"Climate change is a marathon, not a sprint, and the agreement sets a course for the marathon in the years ahead," said David Sandalow, of the Columbia Center on Global Energy Policy.
