 You know for me to train I like to get up in the morning and run a marathon before breakfast and Then do some speed work, maybe a 10 or 12 mile run in the afternoon, but at a faster tempo The first time I heard about running a hundred miles. I thought no human is capable of doing this and When you do it yourself, I think it just breaks boundaries I've run 135 miles across Death Valley in the middle of summer, which is the hottest place on earth It was 131 degrees and I've run a marathon to the South Pole, which is the coldest place on earth It was minus 45 degrees Once I ran 50 marathons in all 50 US states in 50 days I've run on all seven continents twice. So I've seen a lot of the world through running I kind of followed the prescription for happiness that we have here in America You go to a good college. You get a good degree. You get a nice job. You make a lot of money You buy a lot of shit and happiness follows We had money in the bank and we had a 401k and insurance and he was miserable absolutely miserable I didn't feel like there's any intensity in my life. I mean everything kind of came easy I was so comfortable that I just wanted to destroy myself. I Was in San Francisco my 30th birthday with my buddies about 11 o'clock at night. I said I'm leaving So I walked up and ran 30 miles at night straight through the night and Became a runner the next day. I've been sliced and diced and analyzed by a lot of the scientific community There's a program called Stan Lee's superhumans And they found that I have a unique ability to offer something called lactic acid by product of cellular Respiration so you take a heavy weight and you start doing curls You can do maybe four or five wraps and then you start feeling that burning sensation in your arm And you got to put the weight down Well, that's the buildup of lactic acid. That just doesn't happen to me When you're running those kind of distances you have an enormous number of of challenges gastrointestinal joint pain Muscular pain blisters chafing lost toenails fatigue hypothermia heat exhaustion if it's really hot day Once we ran a race called the Badwater ultra marathon Which is considered the toughest foot race on earth the low temperature that night was 114 degrees And I threw my electrolyte out of balance and I was hallucinating and my crew said they found me passed out on the roadside I'd been asleep for six hours There's points where you feel so much hurt and so much discomfort that even the tip of your nose just radiates pain and All you want to do is stop. I Love watching my body deteriorate to the point where I'm getting beat to shit and can I keep going? Can I make it to the finish line? You know, there are tricks. I've learned one of the tricks is you don't get ahead of yourself So you just be in the moment. It's very rare. We live in the now I mean usually we're thinking about the future or you know checking our Twitter feed or you were getting texts We're reflecting on the past But when you're in these conquests like that you don't think about anything Except being the best that you can be in that instant of time. So I just say to myself take your next footstep to the best of your ability Okay, take your next footstep And it's a struggle sometimes just to put one foot in front of the other is a struggle What's remarkable is he has a running career that has not included any sort of significant injury You know, some people say you only have so many foot strikes in your life that you're gonna wear out your knees You know, you can only take so many steps and then it's you know, your back's gonna go something's gonna go People ask the hypothetical what would happen to you if you can't run I always tell people my finish line is a pine box