SLEEPER

2:00am, just got back home today! recap of the last two days:

Day 3: It was Thurs­day night, 8pm, the night before Coachella.  The day had started off rock­ing!  We were doing 4 miles an hour (amaz­ing for us!) and hit 8 miles in less than two hours. [video]

The first two days we knocked out (mostly walked) 46 miles.  37 miles was the plan for the new day.  17 miles later, Johns right ankle had quadru­pled in size and my knee was in a whole new world of pain.  We ended up sit­ting on a boul­der wait­ing for Jerry to pick us up.

Almost all of the run for day 3 was on Route 74.  It cuts through a huge moun­tain, there’s no sidewalks/​paths & tons of cars.  Between jump­ing back & forth from street to moun­tain side avoid­ing cars, we pushed our­selves too hard and were destroyed. [video]

So it was 8pm, we decided to eat our first real meal of the day at Le Basil, try to rest and hope­fully get back out there.  Heads bowed in shame and exhausted, it wasn’t look­ing good.   Then God came in.

Guido + Michiel Frack­ers just so hap­pened to plop down at the table next to us.  Two broth­ers from Ams­ter­dam, they two of the most amaz­ing humans I’ve ever met.

Guido + his bud Andy are two weeks from doing an Iron­man Marathon, 2 miles of swim­ming, 110 mile bike ride, then a marathon run to close it out…  He over­heard our run talk with the waitress…

“You ran here from Riverside?!?!!??”

We told him the whole story, 100 miles blah blah, how we were both exhausted and injured, but were hop­ing to get a sec­ond wind.

30 min­utes later I got a text from Guido.  We were still out­side in the park­ing lot of the restau­rant, groan­ing in agony.

“My buddy Andy and I will run with you guys tonight!”

Fast for­ward an hour. Guido shows up at our hotel with Andy.  He’d been drink­ing at a nearby bar.  They come armed with Icy Hots, an array of run gear and a cooler full of beer.  Aris­to­cat was instantly reju­ve­nated.  [video]

11pm, With Michiel + Jerry in a fol­low car, light­ing up the roads, we ran another 10 miles!  Hav­ing two more peo­ple com­pletely invig­o­rated us.  It was amaz­ing.  Before 1am, we wrapped up 27 miles on the day!

Run Break­down:
Day 1, Gal­le­ria at Tyler to Beau­mont, 32 miles
Day 2, Beau­mont to Morongo Casino, 16 miles
Day 3, Morongo Casino to Mar­riot Shadow Ridge, 27 miles (drove the rest)
Day 4, Mar­riot Shadow Ridge to Vestal Vil­lage, 5 miles (had to be there @ 2pm to DJ)

We pretty much only had 3 days to shoot for 100 miles because we had to be at Vestal Vil­lage at 2pm to setup/​DJ.  I’m def­i­nitely proud of the 80 miles we were able to knock out!

This week we’re going to fig­ure out where to run our last 20 miles, all sug­ges­tions are appre­ci­ated!  Rest assured it will be crazy.

I just got a $1,000 check dona­tion in the mail from Christina Har­baugh, an amaz­ing fam­ily friend who fed us Coca-​​Cola secretly behind my par­ents back.  The best!  We are up to 112 dona­tions, $12,710!

Let’s change the world baby! [video]

NPR/​KPCC interview:

http://​scpr​.org/​n​e​w​s​/​2​0​1​0​/​0​4​/​1​8​/​c​c​o​a​c​h​e​l​l​a​-​d​j​s​-​r​u​n​-​t​h​r​u​-​d​e​s​s​e​r​t​-​c​h​a​r​i​t​y​-​w​a​t​er/

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

(blog title is a short­ened quote from “Born To Run”)