A Manitou Springs athlete ran 500 miles to Moab in 11 days, eating psychedelics the whole way

Around mile 85 of the 100-mile Silverheels Trail Run above Breckenridge last year, Dante Liberato was bonking. Someone gave the retired cage fighter a dose of psychedelics — he doesn’t want to say exactly what — and within minutes he was having fun.

“It brought me out of this hole and by the finish I really wanted to keep running,” said the 27-year-old.

Last month Liberato ran 500 miles from his gym in Manitou Springs to Moab in 11 days, eating LSD and psilocybin mushrooms the whole way…

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