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Posts Tagged ‘Mike Brooks’


Twitter, Facebook, and A New Contest

Do you use Twitter? Or Facebook? Did you know that you can find me on both of them? Here are my pages: http://twitter.com/RunToWin http://www.facebook.com/RunToWin For about a year and a half now, I’ve been putting up a quote of the day that is related to running, or motivating yourself to run, or giving you another [...]

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10 Days for Sunshine » The Last 24 Hours

This morning I have a dual update. Since I was out of town this weekend I wasn’t able to get Mike’s update from his final day up on the site, and he has also left a second update from after the race with his final numbers and some details about his car accident. I’ve included [...]

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Just a Reminder » Last Day for Predictions

This is just a reminder that today is the last day to predict what my time will be in tomorrow morning’s marathon. Last year, I won the marathon in 2:43:27, which was pretty exciting. Going into the race this year, I have 3 goals. Break the course record. Set the course record. Run faster than [...]

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10 Days for Sunshine » The 9th 24 Hours

Mike Brooks has now been running for 9 days and has gone 469 miles. I’ll let Denise provide today’s text update: Mike has now completed 469 miles 31 to go . He’s having a lot of back pain which is making it difficult for him to walk at all right now. He is getting a [...]

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10 Days for Sunshine » The 8th 24 Hours

Mike Brooks checked in and he’s now run for 8 days. He’s been enjoying the weather for the past few days. He’s now run 427 miles, keeping pretty close to his average of 50 miles per day with 49 miles in the past 24 hours. He’s looking forward to getting to the 500 mile mark [...]

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10 Days for Sunshine » The 7th 24 Hours

Mike Brooks has now been running for 7 days, and he’s definitely looking forward to the end of the next 3 days. Today he claims that he’s run 178 miles, so my guess is that he has run 378 miles which would have given him another 44 miles in the past 23 hours (he checked [...]

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10 Days for Sunshine » The 6th 24 Hours

Mike Brooks has now set a 6-day PR after going 334 miles over the past 120 hours, going 50 miles in the past 24 hours. That’s 14 miles further than he ran when he did the 6-day version of the race in the past. Mike’s friend Andy has agreed to donate $500 if Mike makes [...]

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10 Days for Sunshine » The 5th 24 Hours

Mike Brooks has now been going for 120 hours and has covered 284 miles, 48 of them in the past 24 hours (as of noon today.) He had a little company yesterday as his brother, Walter, came down to visit: “Its incredible because he really got into marathoning at a late age. He amazes me, [...]

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