10 Days for Sunshine » The 7th 24 Hours

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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...

10 Days for Sunshine » The 6th 24 Hours

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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...

10 Days for Sunshine » The 5th 24 Hours

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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...

10 Days for Sunshine » The 4th 24 Hours

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Mike Brooks has now completed 96 hours and has gone 236 miles before the 6 day racers even got started. He has run an average of 59 miles per day, so the 46-48 miles he ran over the past 24 hours has barely cut into the cushion he’s built up. The weather...