Rachel Levin is a San Francisco-based writer and former senior travel editor at Sunset magazine. Her work also appears in the New York Times, Food & Wine, Slate, and San Francisco magazine.
An Ultrarunner's Long Road Back
Charlie Engle was a crack addict who saved himself through ultrarunning, becoming an adventure-film star known around the world. Then he was convicted of mortgage fraud and sent to prison. [Oops.] He...