Sean Peffer

@DbJared will there be an audio book option

📚Book Announcement📚 Back at the Barkley firepit this year – and thrilled to announce THE ENDURANCE ARTIST is now available for pre-order! This rare look into Lazarus Lake will be published by 80/20 and distributed by Simon & Schuster. #BM100🔗bit.ly/3FuwNe5 It began with a question—one that ran through Laz’s life, his races, and my encounters with him: “What makes you quit?” And what started as a simple biography morphed into something else altogether. There’s hard, insanely hard, then there’s Laz’s creations. He’s been called everything from a hillbilly genius to an evil mastermind to “the Willy Wonka of the Woods.” Through jeerleaders, taunts, and non-standardized (often unknown) distances – Laz questions whether our obsession with fairness ultimately limits our potential. His Barkley Marathons is widely regarded as the most difficult and ingenious ultramarathon ever devised. Set in the thorny wilds of Tennessee, runners hunt for hidden books in hills, hells, and hollers. In 38 years, only 20 runners have reached the finish line. His Backyard Ultras upend our notions of winning and losing—a race with no finish line, where “speed kills” and the best finish last. The Endurance Artist offers the reader a ringside seat to these crucibles and punches through the gore to expose a surprising humanity beneath. Along the way, an unflinching portrait of Lazarus Lake emerges – an aimless hippie-turned hospital orderly-turned accountant, who took a simple idea – that failure has to hurt – and made it into an art form. "I was captivated. The suffering, striving, and dreaming of the ultra-community is right there smack up against the unanswerable yet irresistible question: Why does anyone do this? So many insights into Laz and his legacy, while never losing track of the basic mystery of the man." —Tom Foreman, Emmy-award-winning journalist at CNN "Beasley finally delivers the tale so many of us have waited to read, a book as rambunctious, bloody and—yes, beautiful—as its subjects. If you're a runner—you'll devour it. If you're not a runner—you'll devour it. " —Chris Solomon, Contributing editor at Outside magazine “Whether you run or not, you will love reading about the quirky, brilliant, hillbilly genius of Lazarus Lake who, like Bob Dylan, isn’t afraid to experiment. He doesn’t care about expectations or what others think of him. The Endurance Artist will... leave you simultaneously laughing and cringing as you meet a cast of characters as exceptional as they come.” —Marshall Ulrich, best-selling author of Running on Empty and Both Feet on the Ground. Endurance athlete, speaker, and Route 66 UltraRun race director. 📢I'll be covering this year's Barkley for The Guardian. Stay tuned! #TheEnduranceArtist #lazbook #ultrarunning

@TotalsportsSA I visited your Canal Walk store this weekend. Customer service is wanting, from staff on their phones to others either not identifying products correctly or listlessly pointing me in the general direction. Luckily I found what I was looking.

@TableMountainNP Any updates for Fri 3rd May? Saw large flames at 5am above Newlands. Is the lower Newlands forest open for walks?

SANParks is appealing to the public to please respect the trail closures in order not to endanger anyone or hamper firefighting efforts. Updates will be provided as the situation progresses #tablemountain #fireiseveryonesfight #fire #Wildfire #capetown #sanparks #liveyourwild

🔥Skeleton Gorge Fire🔥 Largely contained Currently, firefighting efforts continue along the slopes of Fernwood Park and Newlands, involving more than 60 firefighters of NCC Environmental Services, Volunteer Wildfire Services, and Working on Fire, battling a large flare-up.

@richardcalland will the play, The Brothers be coming down to Cape Town?

@SimbaChipsSA just weighed a 120gr Simba bag of chips, it weighs less than half the stated value. Hope this was bad packaging and not severe shrink-flation.

@nomzn_n @RoryPetzer I just let them hang there till they state their business. Send them this link 😀 nohello.com/?m=0

@RoryPetzer The Hi alone is a sign of a failed state

People who WhatsApp "Hello hw r u?" and then wait for you to respond are weakening the rand and putting unnecessary strain on Eskom's grid.

@IL0VEthe80s Put the phone down, I'm on the internet

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@RoryPetzer I really just want to take that 20 minutes and enjoy the quiet.

Anyone else delay haircuts because of a small talk phobia?

@RicharddeNooy Did we learn nothing from the gas tanker explosion?

The gas is still there and it’s still just as explosive. I’d type this in capitals, but no one’s listening.

@FNBSA A FNB app suggestion, please increase the font size of the expiry date & cvv on the virtual card. No reason for it to be that small. Will help those of us with weaker eyes 😀

@ilovenostalgia That looked like it melted while standing out in the sun.

Is this the ugliest car ever known to man? Has there been worse?

@MandyWiener @CapeTalk G4S should really be footing the bill for getting Bester back to SA since he escaped on their watch.I also wish the reporters would stop bringing Bester's mother into his criminal media craze, she doesn't deserve the negative attention. #ThaboBester

Genius. His images indelible,end of an era… washingtonpost.com/obituaries/202…

Thank you for the laughs, the satire and the fold-out, Mr Jaffee. #ForeverMad #RIPAlJaffee theguardian.com/books/2023/apr…

@OUTASA @GovernmentZA How do we force the government to do this? Voting doesn't seem to work if the majority still believe and trust the anc? What can the man in the street do?

If they don't, civil society steps in to FORCE them to do so. Even if we want to take on every wrong in SA, we simply can't. 45 people with limited funds can never fix a whole country's corruption on their own. SAns should force @GovernmentZA to do what they are PAID a lot to do

Maybe educate yourself on how processes of accountability work? Civil society can never replace normal law enforcement processes. Parliament has the power to call for inquest into ALL of this right now. SAPS, Hawks, SIU, SARS MUST investigate wrongdoing - it's their actual JOB.

@melvanwykct Sadly been there done that. Flippin disappointing when your evening doesn't pan out

We were supposed to watch Super Mario on Fri but when we got to the cinema I realised I had booked for Blue Route instead of Bayside. Rebooked for today to find you can only use your Vitality discount once per movie. This better be the best movie ever coz it cost R500 😭😭

@Discovery_SA Instant rewards. I want fixed rewards if I melt my goal, not random options. A guaranteed coffee or smoothie

Our new #VitalityActiveRewards is HERE… and now it’s time to cast your vote! Are you Team Instant Rewards☕ or Team Gameboard📱? Tell us the reason for your choice, and you could WIN R1,000* this #TweetMeTuesday. Reply with #DiscoveryBestBank to enter. *Ts&Cs apply.

@MvelaseP Upgrading to a bean to coffee machine and a nutribullet. Feels like luxury items that I've spoilt myself with.

What small thing did you do (probably buy) that made you realise that you'd most likely moved up a LSM level? Small. Not like buying a house or a car.

@IL0VEthe80s Useful to keep small change in the car

Only people of a certain age know what’s stored in here. Do you know?

@ItsAndyRyan @ToddWRoy1 Along with his odd sideways stance at a lecturn

@ToddWRoy1 I was the first to call out people who made fun of Prince Philip just for looking old (not that I'm a fan of his). But this seems mainly just down to Trump pulling a weird face.

Only just occurred to me what an unnatural expression it is to reveal all your front lower teeth and have your upper teeth covered. Try to do it.