After confirming that I'll be doing this (save for any injuries), I now need to go about finding a worthy charity and sponsors to donate money or pledge a per-mile donation.
My initial thoughts were to help a women's shelter in the Concord, NH community or something along those lines. I don't know of any runner's charities, but I'd be up for that as well.
Do any of you have ideas about what might make a good charity for the run?
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Not an organized race
At this point, I'm not planning to run in an organized race to put in the 48 miles in 48 hours. This will purely be a run down back roads from Concord, NH to Nashua, NH over a two-day period. No race bibs, no scheduled water stops and no timing chips.
If this starts to catch on, we may need to organize something, but right now it'll just be me running down the road with hopefully a person or two with me for support.
If this starts to catch on, we may need to organize something, but right now it'll just be me running down the road with hopefully a person or two with me for support.
Starting to recruit some runners
I've started to talk about the challenge to a number of runners at my law school and they all seem to be intrigued. So far no one has been interested enough to run the full 48 with me, but they're up for running a segment of 8.
If I can get at least 6 people to run one 8-mile segment with me, that'd be fantastic. I've already talked to a friend from high school who is debating running a virtual race with me, as is Laura at Absolut(ly) Fit.
Anyone else up for running at least a couple miles with me, virtually or otherwise?
If I can get at least 6 people to run one 8-mile segment with me, that'd be fantastic. I've already talked to a friend from high school who is debating running a virtual race with me, as is Laura at Absolut(ly) Fit.
Anyone else up for running at least a couple miles with me, virtually or otherwise?
The Challenge
I'm running 48 miles in 48 hours on Saturday, October 18 and Sunday, October 19. I'll start on Saturday morning and finish on Sunday evening running from Concord, NH to Tyngsboro, MA all on non-highways.
I'm running 3 8-mile segments two days in a row. I'll stop at the end of one segment and then start the next segment from the previous segment's end. I won't be running continuously over 48 hours but will in fact do the distance over a period of 2 days.
48 miles in 48 hours is my post-marathon challenge. It requires me to run several times each day at whatever increments are necessary to get me to 48 miles before the end of Sunday night. At this point, it's the closest I've gotten to any kind of ultramarathon.
I plan to get donations for the American Cancer Society and I'll ask local friends to either run with me or help me along the way with food, water, change of clothes, etc.
I blogged about the concept over at my other site, PhillyToLAonFoot.
I'm running 3 8-mile segments two days in a row. I'll stop at the end of one segment and then start the next segment from the previous segment's end. I won't be running continuously over 48 hours but will in fact do the distance over a period of 2 days.
48 miles in 48 hours is my post-marathon challenge. It requires me to run several times each day at whatever increments are necessary to get me to 48 miles before the end of Sunday night. At this point, it's the closest I've gotten to any kind of ultramarathon.
I plan to get donations for the American Cancer Society and I'll ask local friends to either run with me or help me along the way with food, water, change of clothes, etc.
I blogged about the concept over at my other site, PhillyToLAonFoot.
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