Seriously
- I cancelled plans to return to Boston where I was registered to run the Marathon
- The amount of money invested in this endeavor from supplies to gear
- Taking a week of vacation from work
- It will be the most epic thing I have ever done
- I’ve put aside my speed running to focus on endurance
- This is high profile with Team inov-8 for me
- There will be lots of eyes watching from friends to family to the ultra running community
- The crew/team support is devoting their free time to us
- This would easily be at the top of my running resume
- This has been Rob’s dream for the last decade
- To prove that I can
- To prove the doubters wrong
- The hours of training in preparation
- To make my parents proud
- Because of the 6.8 billion people in the world, 99.9998533% of them can’t do this.
Not so seriously
- It gives me a reason not to run Cotton Row 10k.
- Mellow Mushroom. Mmm…
- What else was I going to blog about in May? The Gurley Library Challenge and Music Moves Me?
- Hell, we had shirts made.
- It’s better than a week of work at Innatech.
- The stock I bought in Honey Stinger.
- I’ve been looking for a reason to get another tattoo
- After this I might be half as bad ass as Kathy Youngren
- Getting poison ivy means getting a post-run steroid shot
- This will keep SportsMed Physical Therapists employed with fixing my everything after ward
- A reason to consume 10,000 calories a day and still fit into my skinny jeans
- The prize money.
- Training for this helped to expand the English language with phrases such as ‘peter-line’
- James E. Hurley likes this.
- Most of all, why the heck not?