[angrysaki]

I'm sure there's some truth to this but I don't think that is what is happening in this case. From what I can gather, this is about people who trained for a goal, and during the event an unexpected "weak link" in the chain gave out so they found a mechanical solution.

I'm sure if most of them had gotten this during training, they would have taken the time to recover.

[curiousgal]

A 3000-mile 8-day 1-hour sleep race sounds rather "addict-y" to me.