Moab 240: David Goggins Style
Ultrarunning is crazy, but it sounds fun with the limit of how your body reacts, the scenery, and trail running.
The farthest I’ve done so far is 26.2 miles or marathon distance. Anything above that is an Ultramarathon.
What if it’s nine marathons in one race? Well, you get the Moab 240. This course is brutal and has beaten up some of the best Ultramarathon runners out there. The course is in Eastern Utah traveling through the desert and mountains. The elevation gain and descent is 29,467 feet!
The race takes several days to finish. In the book Never Finished, David Goggins mentions his experience running Moab twice in full detail. I couldn’t stop listening to this part.
After David learned his friend Cameron Hanes who wrote Endure did the race, he was like ‘What’s that?’ David was instantly hooked when Cam mentioned the race details.
So David signed up. He only had six weeks to train, but that’s okay. He’ll get it.
Come race day, David was ready, but it’s 240 miles! You can only know how prepared you are when you start running.
Sadly, David went off course and ran an extra 15 miles in the wrong way. This caused him to bonk hard and then he experienced Altitude sickness. The problem was that the nearest aid station or where the crew could pick him up was 10 miles away. He made the trek onward though.
Surprisingly, David didn’t get hurt that much. He went to the hospital to get checked out. When a person does this, it’s an instant DNF (don’t finish).
David didn’t finish the race and stopped around mile 201. When David got home and started sleeping, his mind was racing and telling him to keep going.
He got up and told his wife Kish that he was running the rest of the race. He did that, and ran the rest of the course. He was officially DNF’ed, so he couldn’t pass the finish line.
He wanted revenge, so he signed up for Moab again in 2020. He finished it in 62 hours. David provides more detail of this race in the book, so check it out.
I haven’t heard much detail about this race, so I’m glad David mentioned this in the new book. The book I’m listening to this weekend. I’m not sure what other audiobook I’ll get too this weekend, but I only have two hours left to this book. The audible edition of this book has sections where David interviews his mom and gets interviewed himself by the narrator, Adam.
Sadly, this audible edition didn’t link up to my kindle, so it doesn’t tell me where the narrator is. However, I’ve gotten it down, and I’m reading alongside Adam. I’ll do this when I’m listening to the book in my bed, work table, or dinner table. I won’t do this while I’m driving. I’ll bookmark the sections. After I’m done driving, I’ll look up the bookmarks and go to those pages in my Kindle. I’ll take notes and highlight the sections I thought were interesting. So far, I’ve taken 413 highlights and 5 notes. I have to work more on the note section, but not a bad start.
I have to get back to this book, so I’ll catch you later on another post tomorrow. Follow Johnnysbookreviews for more book related posts!
