SLEEPER

2:00am, late Wednes­day night.

Aris­to­cat fell asleep two hours ago, we just got to the Morongo Casino in Cabazon Cal­i­for­nia.  This is the end of the 2^nd day, 100 Mile DJ Run for char­ity: water.  We ran, jogged, + mostly walked 46 miles so far.  I’m beyond exhausted, but I really want to throw you guys an update.

Note­ables on jour­ney so far:

30 min­utes late for press con­fer­ence at Shiekh Shoes.  We got there first, Dae ended up get­ting lost and pretty much missed the whole thing haha! The night before I prayed A LOT that it wouldn’t be empty.

We arrive, there are two reporters and a pho­tog­ra­pher.  It was all good, they were extremely inter­ested in us and spent more than two hours inter­view­ing + shoot­ing.  So grate­ful to Jeff @ Voice of America + The Press Enter­prise.

Meera from Sweet Craze was there + baked us 100 cup­cakes!  I LOVE MEERA! I hate cup­cakes, but she has made me a huge fan.  Def­i­nitely the best in the world.  Thanks so much to Eric for spread­ing the word to her.

We take off run­ning, first 7 – 8 miles were really smooth, after that, pain and anguish slowly creeped up on us.  10 miles of incline shortly followed.

Dur­ing our scout of the run, we failed to notice how there were huge por­tions of the route lack­ing side­walks + walk­ing areas.  We ended up walk­ing on the shoul­der of roads try­ing to avoid rocks + jagged debris.

I’m run­ning in Vibram FiveFin­gers, thin gloves for your feet.  I can feel almost every peb­ble on the ground, sharp objects hurt.  Dae’s been try­ing to get me to wear shoes but I must fin­ish in these!

For some rea­son we thought it’d be a good idea not to eat any­thing except small por­tions of sal­ads and nuts.  That was dumb.  By the end of the night, we we’re com­pletely drained, and the tem­per­a­ture had dropped below 45…

No side­walks so we’re walk­ing between the rail­road and the streets.  Every­time a car got near, I turned on my flash­light so they knew not to kill us.  Feet were really hurt­ing but it was so cold, they were numb.

Dur­ing the later por­tion of the evening the 10 minute rou­tine went some­thing like this.

look straight down @ the ground try­ing to avoid painful objects

clus­ter­field of rocks ahead, hop on to the road

hear a car com­ing, hop back over onto sharp rock bed of glory, turn on flashlight

car passes, turn off flash­light (had to con­serve battery)

train comes, plug ears for 5 minutes

look straight down @ the ground try­ing to avoid painful objects

clus­ter­field of rocks ahead, hop on to the road

hear a car com­ing, hop back over onto sharp rock bed of glory, turn on flashlight

car passes, turn off flash­light (had to con­serve battery)

train comes, plug ears for 5 minutes

and so on and so on and so on

It was so dark, seemed like we were get­ting nowhere.  36 miles was our goal for the first day.  Freez­ing and in anguish, the last mile we fin­ished took 45 min­utes, we were basi­cally crawl­ing.  Ended up lay­ing down next to a street lamp and called Jerry to pick us up.

Found a Denny’s to grub.  1^st day = 30 miles down!

We did 16 miles today!  Extremely sore, we walked the entire thing.  We’ve talked about so many ridicu­lous things that right now I can’t remem­ber a sin­gle one of them.

I’ll upload more pho­tos tomor­row, I’m falling asleep as I type. 

37 miles tomor­row = insanity.

Tomor­row at 11am PST, Aris­to­cat + I will be inter­viewed (in Chi­nese!) by KAZN AM1300, if you’re in Los Ange­les, tune in and hear us roar.

Dona­tions:
http://​mychar​i​ty​wa​ter​.org/​1​0​0​m​i​l​e​d​j​run

Scout/​Drive Video:
http://​www​.youtube​.com/​w​a​t​c​h​?​v​=​T​G​r​6​5​N​6​w​aW4

Twit­ter:

http://​twit​ter​.com/​1​0​0​m​i​l​e​d​j​run

Offi­cial Site:

http://​100miled​jrun​.com

my feet feel like the dude in “Mis­ery” one of the most amaz­ing movies of all time.

you should watch all these clips if you have time, if not fast for­ward to #1, 6:53

If you like this, check out these–

1. The rea­son we race isn’t to beat each other, but to be with each other.
2. In 2 days! Shiekh Music 100 Mile DJ Run