The second night, I slept a total of 2 hours and 20 minutes over two naps. The first night, I feel asleep once for 1 hour and 5 minutes. That is probably the longest I have gone in my adult life without caffeine. I did not have any caffeine for the duration of the challenge because I was worried that it would affect my stomach negatively or make sleeping more difficult. I lost 8 pounds from the time that I started the challenge, despite drinking as much water as I could and eating as much as I could stomach. But probably the most dangerous due to the darkness. I think the 10pm/2am legs were my favorites. It was over 70 degrees with 50% humidity, which is a lot for Las Vegas. I ran 5 of the legs with other people, 7 by myself. Distraction would have been nice for sure. I didn’t listen to music during any of the runs. In fact, I never even stopped once because I luckily never had to stop for a traffic light or traffic when crossing a street. I was most proud that I didn’t walk during any of the legs. It really hurt, but I wanted to empty the tank. My second fastest mile was my very last mile, mile 56, which came it at 7:27. That was the mile I used for my virtual Qurantine Quartet entry. My fastest mile was mile 4 of the first leg, which came in at 6:25.
I set the goal at $1,200 but my friends, family, as well as some complete strangers came through in a big way and we ended up raising substantially more than that. I really didn't know what I was getting in to, but I knew I wanted to raise money to provide meals to frontline health care workers, so I went about seeking sponsors for each leg. But the COVID-19 pandemic had cleared my schedule in a big way, so for some unknown reason, I decided I would give it a shot that coming weekend, April 17-19. When I heard about this, I of course said to myself that I would never do something so crazy. So you end up running a total of 48 miles in 48 hours. Here is the premise: You run 4 miles every 4 hours for 48 hours.
I asked him about it and he told me it was also something that David Goggins came up with and that it was the second time he had done it. I learned about this challenge from my friend, Adam Czajkowski, because he posted about it on Facebook as he was doing it in early April 2020.
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