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Podcast: Ultrarunning History
Episode: 25: The Wheelbarrow Man – Lyman Potter
Description: By Davy CrockettÂ
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In recent years, some of the ultrarunners who have run across America performed it by pushing baby joggers to carry their stuff in a self-supported mode. Once when Phil Rosenstein was pushing his jogger during his transcontinental run, an alarmed passing motorist called the police, and reported that a crazy person was pushing his baby along a busy highway in a baby carriage. In the general public’s mind, it is just too crazy to imagine someone running across the country pulling or pushing a contraption.
What about pushing a o...