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Sixty five days until I hit the road. The buildup is killing me. I’ve been preparing for something like three months now and I don’t yet feel ready. It’s not the milage that plays on my mind. That part is all just a matter of patience and doing. What is unsettling is that I tweak my route often. I’m really not sure just yet where I will lay my head from night to night.

My main goal in this run was to have enough books ready to give to kids along my route. Actually I should state clearly the purpose of my organization because, at times, the run overshadows the foundation. The mission of the Papa Didos Ideals Foundation is to promote literacy to children (especially those at risk and underprivileged) by giving them books and reading to them...

For months now I have been tirelessly training. I vary my workouts between 26.2 miles a day to as low as six miles a day. Not wanting to burn out on running as well as trying to preserve my legs for the upcoming journey I thought this week would be a good time to switch up the workouts to strength training and speed training. I have discovered something very important by doing so. I’ve discovered it’s not nice to neglect your other muscle groups.
At first I was loving my day of swimming, weights, and a marathon session of late afternoon tennis. I felt strong and very alert. There was definitely no trace of being winded. All the long distance running had kept my cardio at it’s peak. I could have continued forever. I had a medium sized dinner afterwards then went to bed all cozy.
When ...