“We?” I must have missed the discussion when that was decided. With my lovely runner bride who is always up for a challengeĮven as an avid runner, my experience with it last year was hard enough that I hadn’t forgotten it, so I was planning to skip it this year–until a few weeks ago when my wife started telling everyone we were doing it again (she ended up doing it with me, unofficially, last year). So, under optimal conditions, while doing something physically demanding for about 40ish minutes every four hours, you’re getting maybe an hour of sleep every four hours–and conditions are NEVER optimal.
YEAR LONG RUNNING CHALLENGE FULL
Repeat at 4:00 a.m., and every four hours, day and night, for two full days. So, starting at 8:00, you run, say 40 minutes, get home close to 9:00, shower and otherwise clean up until 9:30, eat something until 10:00, wind down enough to get to sleep at 10:30, sleep until 11:30, get up, get ready, get to wherever you’re running, and start again at 12:00 a.m. For me, that is 9:00 pm for someone in Japan, it is 1:00 am–the next day. Goggins launched the event on Friday evening, for participants literally throughout the world, at 8:00 p.m., pacific time. And, the entry fee is just a donation to your favorite charity (over 3 million dollars raised last year). He calls it the 4x4x48 Challenge: Run (or an equivalent time of any exercise) 4 miles, at the beginning of every 4 hours, for 48 hours ( Working through the math, if you only run, you hit 48 miles in 48 hours.
There is no reason for anyone to remember this but me: Last March I participated in a “challenge” that David Googins (look him up–it’s worth it) offered the world as something to do while Covid-19 was shutting down many athletic events for the past couple years.
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