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So we thought we would invite you to play a game. Below we have listed interesting facts (or fiction) from Scott's run.. Can you guess the right answers?

Fact or Fiction From Adventures of Little Runner Boy

a) Scott consumed about 2880 ounces or 22.5 gallons of liquid on this run.

b) Scott ran through 5 pair of running shoes and 13 pair of running socks and 1 pair of perfectly good feet.

c) Scott ran for a total of 132 hours to complete the run.

d) While running Scott burned 98,784 c… Continue

I thought it might be interesting to some of you what a typical day in the life of running across the state of North Carolina entails.

5am
(LRB)--Get up, make sure legs are still there. Make sure legs still work. Make legs work and get you to bathroom

(Support team) Get up. Grumble at runner for making you have to get up at 5am :) Make coffee, go get coffee, steal coffee, bribe for coffee, sell your first born for coffee.

5:10
(LRB)take shower, get dressed, pop blisters that grew in t… Continue

Today we discovered there is more than one way to Manteo. Wind shifts to the southwest this morning brought the smoke from fires burning in Pocosin Lakes Wildlife Refuge directly in our path. By lunchtime at noon, with 25 miles down, visibility was reduced to under 1/2 mile and getting worse by the minute. Burning eyes, throats and general lack of oxygen proved even too much for the powers of the Little Runner Boy and his sidekick. With excellent help from Kelly at Goose Creek State Park, we con… Continue

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Jay Clark was a wonderful friend of mine who fought bladder cancer for 7 long years. His main goal was to see his son graduate from high school. Through all his pain, discomforts and the insults cancer caused on his body, he kept fighting and kept smiling. Just before he died he gave me a small little marble plaque. It reads " If you think you are beaten you are; If you think you dare not, you don't; If you'd like to win but think you can't it is almost certain you won't. If you think you'll… Continue