A few months ago, JB heard tell of an event called the 50/20. It's where you have 20 hours to walk 50 miles. They have a few different ones, and he signed up for one run through the Boy Scouts in Utah County. He thought it would be a good activity/experience for the teenage boys and their leaders in our ward.
By the day of, all but one of the boys had dropped out. So here's the group ready to start at 6 PM a week ago Friday:
By the middle of the night, between miles 20 and 30, all but JB and one other leader dropped out. It was a lot harder than any of them anticipated. A lot harder.
The boys and I were thinking of JB before we went to sleep in our comfortable beds, and thought of him again when we woke up....and that's when I realized, that he had been walking all night long in the moonlight. I looked closer at the route online -- it was a 50 mile loop, mostly gravel roads and trail, some hills. He called around mile 42, to say it was just him and Jordan left, and they were tired and sore and battling blisters. It took around 2 hours from there to finish the last 8 miles.
You've got the fatigue from walking all night, and all that time spent upright on your feet. But what an accomplishment! Walking 50 miles in 18 straight hours isn't something everyone can say!
JB says he was so delirious at the finish line that the picture he took didn't actually take. So the next day, the two warriors posed again in their new shirts. They limped over to each other for the picture, but they did it!
3 comments:
Wow, that's amazing! That's almost 2 marathons long!
That's a little bit crazy, but good for him!
Foot soak after that one! Wowzers!
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