In May 2014, Nate, a GAC founding member called and said he had an extra entry for the Stumptown 50k in two weeks. We periodically challenge each other to mild-extreme adventures so it was of course, on. The rules are simple, no training (we don’t want to risk injury before the event), don’t be last (we are competitive) and you have to finish. Some of us ran a couple 3 mile training runs beforehand, but didn’t feel like that was cheating.
Nate, who is a firefighter, is somewhat fit for work, but not a runner. He picked up some new Nike’s the night before and spotted some compression socks so grabbed those as well. I googled ultra runners and found some ideas on foot care. I made a quick trip to Rite Aid and picked up some Tincture of Benzoin, bandaids and athletic tape. Following various Youtube video’s, we taped our toes, slid on toe socks, our shoes and were off to the start.
6 hours and some minutes later we crossed the finish line, not last.
The Global Explorers Club 