After running 42km in Barcelona on Friday, Mike Humphries quickly returned to his truck to drive 200km to Andorra, where he ran the same distance the next day.
The two races were just the beginning of a massive charitable challenge Humphreys set himself this month: running 30 marathons in 30 days in 30 different places.
“I’ll be honest, this challenge is crazy,” he said from his truck in Barcelona. “My family tried to convince me not to do it many times.”
They asked him to spread out the races over six months or hire a support crew, but he insisted on doing it alone and in a shorter time frame.
The 33-year-old British runner, who reveals his movements on social media, is raising money to spend on research into motor neuron disease, a rare disease that affects the brain and spinal cord and has no cure and ultimately leads to death.
On his fifth day, after participating in other marathons in Cannes and Monaco in France, his page on the online charitable fundraising platform (Go Fund Me) showed that he had raised 7,790 pounds sterling (10,187 US dollars).
Humphreys made this decision after his friend Craig Escritt was diagnosed with this disease.
Karl Giblin, another friend of his, died of this disease in 2013 and he wanted to do something to alleviate his feeling of helplessness.
“If I can raise awareness, we can get more funding,” Humphreys said.
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