David Goggins Did A 200 Mile Endurance Race Through The Mountains In 66 Hours Which Might Actually Prove His Alpha Male Status

Listen, I'd be lying if I told you I didn't sit down in front of my television screen in college and put on David Goggins motivational speeches before doing some stupid shit like going out to the bars trying to pick up chicks or getting up to stop playing Xbox and actually go outside. And it sorta worked?

Fortunately for him, the whole alpha male internet space became largely popular with the rise of TikTok and other forms where people can consume a motivational speech in 60 seconds and then go be productive for a few minutes before returning back to everything that made them lazy in the first place. You just hit yourself with a clip of Goggins or one of those other alpha males telling you that the human mind is more powerful than you can imagine and you just have to get up and do it and you'll be on your way.

Anyway, if running a 200 mile race is what constitutes being an alpha male then I'm going to bow out from ever being associated with that. I was today years old when I learned what the Big Foot 200 endurance run is, but essentially it's a 200 mile point-to-point race with 44,000 feet of ascent and 45,000 feet of loss. I looked up the average time and it was 106 hours, and Goggins finished it in 66 apparently, a day later than the first place guy who finished it in 45:03. I don't know what compels someone to be in a point in life where they do something like this, but a hat tip to them while I sit at a desk writing a blog about it. Truly commendable stuff there.

P.S. How many "YOU DON'T KNOW ME SON"s were dropped in the 200 miles?