Let’s start with the why, because before we get to the what, when or how of running across America, you need to know what compels a man to do this.
Then come back and do it again.
Forty miles a day, every day, for three straight months. Five thousand kilometres of left-right, left-right monotony, through blisters and burnt landscapes, stunning mountain passes and sketchy inner-city ghettos, past pointed guns and venomous snakes, the kindness of strangers and the cruelty of life – all of it swallowed whole in a mind-altering cocktail of exhaustion, euphoria and life-affirming epiphanies.
Why does Richard Donovan choose this life? Why the hell wouldn’t he?
“There’s an addiction to this,” he says. “You have these zen-like moments that only occur when you put yourself under that physical pressure for a prolonged period. The most significant thoughts come when you’re most insignificant.”
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