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Goggins raised over $3 million for charity from his 4x4x48 last year, and Threlfall is donating 100% of support from his run to the Challenged Athletes Foundation (CAF), which provides opportunities to people with physical challenges. One thing both athletes can agree on, though? The importance of supporting a cause. It’s a worthy reminder that you don’t necessarily need to go to a dark place to complete your next goal. This means if you start running at 16:00 and it takes 40. To achieve this, every 4 hours you have to run 4 miles. But he gets to the finish line in much the same the way George Bailey gets to the end of It’s a Wonderful Life - with chuckles, charm and an entire community at his side. The idea is to run 48 miles within 48 hours with the added challenge of sleep deprivation. Along with Kirkeby and Benedetto, the trio pitched tents in Hauck’s backyard in Seafair for the duration of the 48-hour event. Make no mistake, Threlfall is mentally tough, too. Hauck told the Richmond News last week how he was doing the David Goggins 4x4x48 Challenge which happens around the world in honour of family members and a colleague who have either beaten or been taken by cancer. It’s a compelling counterpoint to Goggins’s brand of mental toughness, which holds stoicism, self-reliance and suffering above all else. And at each turn, he looks for ways to maximize his recovery. Throughout it all he remains cheery and hopeful, if a bit moody that he’s slept less than seven hours in two days. During one rest, he stops to have a few pints and a pizza at a local pub.

His dog Reggie even puts in a four-mile shift. Throughout the challenge, Threlfall recruits friends to help him knock out the miles. You also become eligible to find your greatness and become the One Warrior.” Here’s another quote from him, for the uninitiated: “From the time you take your first breath, you become eligible to die. Goggins, for those who haven’t read Can’t Hurt Me, has … a very particular worldview. But most fascinating was how much he made the challenge his own.

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He ran the miles slow (at a 10:00 pace) in order to keep his legs fresh for the full 48 hours, but that meant he had less time in between each interval - never much more than three hours to return home and fuel up, get warm, take a warm shower, get out the foam roller and sit by the fire or sleep. The 33-year-old, who is now a presenter at Global Triathlon Network, ran from 4 p.m. The test calls for a four-mile run every four hours for two straight days, and in order to finish, Threlfall had to maximize his resting windows. It was a thoughtful approach to recovery, though, that actually helped British triathlete Mark Threlfall conquer Goggins’s infamous 4x4x48 running challenge last week.

Let’s put the shoes on and get grinding.” “If you want to join the community, and get hard,” he said, “Don’t talk about rest … Stop fucking thinking so much. In a recent appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience, ex-Navy SEAL David Goggins laughed about the “soft shit” that critics bring to his Instagram, Twitter and Facebook pages.