Stretching out: Brownsville's Art Hurtado to run in 200-mile ultra marathon

Stretching out: Brownsville's Art Hurtado to run in 200-mile ultra marathon

Sep. 22—Brownsville ultra runner Art Hurtado will stretch out this weekend to a distance most people would regard as unthinkable: 200 miles across half the state of Nebraska. Hurtado has been running ultra marathons, defined in the running community as any foot race longer than the traditional marathon distance of 26.2 miles, or 42.2 kilometers, since the COVID pandemic days of 2021, competing ...