Mighty real

‘THEY WERE TOLD to cash in their pensions and spend their savings because they were going to die,” says actor Paul Clayton, 68, reflecting on the gay men who lived through the height of the AIDS crisi

A seemingly superhuman ultrarunning barrier is tantalisingly close to being shattered. So close, in fact, that we could see it happen this year. Here’s what it will take to push beyond the edge – and who has the grit to do it