Mark Dowdle won the Last Soul Ultra in Germany on August 14, a backyard-format race of 4.167-mile loops run on the hour, covering 395 miles in just under 94 hours without sleep. He arrived 15 minutes before the start after race director Kim arranged a private jet from Amsterdam to Mooster, and around 60 to 62 hours in he told a friend the race was too hard to continue but that he would not stop. The course was an old military base, 65 percent concrete, and one competitor was airlifted out. Dowdle hallucinated a constant state of nostalgia, feeling he had been there before. Mike Egan, a bilateral amputee and wheelchair user, set a personal record of 31 or 32…