This summer marked a year straight of travel. In the last year - in fact in the last 6 months - I've been on all 7 continents and since I started traveling, I've been to 29+ countries in the past 12-13 months (I'm losing track). I didn't set out to do it, but as it turn out, I accidentally knocked another thing off my impossible list - travel for a year straight. As I've been trying to explain my life to people lately, it looks something like ...
Archives for August 2017
Wear Your Own Motivation
Why haven’t you done that thing you’ve been wanting to do? If the answer is, "I’m just waiting to get motivated." Shut the ---- up. Motivation is crap. Be your own motivation. Wear it all over yourself if you have to. You are going to die. What other motivation do you need? Figure out what you want to do, then plaster that ISH all over yourself. See it every time you look in the mirror. Stop telling yourself you want to be this, or ...
48 Hours In Doha
Today's story doesn't really fit anywhere on the site, but I wanted to share it. Feel free to skip it if you like, but some of the hardest parts of 777 had nothing to do with running. This story is exhibit A. /// “I gotta get out of this place.” I was going on about 36 hours straight of no sleep. My flight. I was already here 12 hours too long. On the way to South Africa from Bali, I routed through Hong Kong to start the journey to Africa. I ...
Hell on the Hill 4
After 777 finished in Cape Town, I swore I was done for the year. I needed to recover, do some physical therapy and get strong again. Then I found myself running across Liechtenstein and Monaco. I swore I was done after that. Then I heard about Hell on the Hill...and..well...you can probably guess where this is going. Hell on the Hill isn't a race as much as it is a challenge - 100x up (and down) a hill in Jesse Itzler's backyard in ...
