Official David Goggins (motivation thread)post!

[keitznic]

Competed in 135-mile Badwater Ultramarathon, finishing fifth (2006) and third (2007).
Finished second at the 2006 Ultraman World Championships (a double Ironman triathlon).
Won, and set course record for the Ultra Centric 48-hour run covering 203 miles (2007).
Won the 2008 McNaughton 150-miler
Won the Texas Hill Country 375 Mile bike race
Has raised around $500,000 for the Special Operations Warrior Foundation.
Completed over thirty 100-mile races in just three years.
290 lbs to 190 lbs in two months

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid416421194?bctid=2239133001
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Smiling at the thought of confounding strangers, Goggins adds, "It's not so much about the limelight. It's about doing what people think is impossible, then showing them it's not."

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In 2005 Petty Officer First Class David Goggins’ life took a tragic turn. Several of his fellow U.S. Navy SEAL(s) were killed in a helicopter crash during a mission in Afghanistan. To honor them, Goggins vowed to raise money for the Special Operations Warrior Foundation, which gives college scholarships and grants to the children of fallen special operations soldiers. Goggins rationalized that to raise money, he would have to do something extreme, something phenomenal— something incredibly painful.

He decided to race ultramarathons when he Googled the 10 most difficult feats in the world. First on the list was the Badwater Ultramarathon, a 135-mile footrace through Death Valley. He called the race organizers to inquire about entry.

Goggins had never participated in an ultramarathon before—he had never even run a regular marathon. However, the race organizers were sympathetic to his cause and said that if he completed a couple of ultras before Badwater, they would consider his race application.

Only four days after deciding to compete in Badwater, he was on the starting line of his first 100-miler. What happened to Goggins over the course of the next 100 miles might have been a life-changing event for many. For Goggins, it was simple affirmation. He broke nearly every bone in his feet and suffered kidney failure. His wife, who is a nurse, feared for his life and urged him to go to a hospital. He refused. He called in sick to work the day after the race. In truth, he couldn’t move. He began to wonder if he’d make it through the night.

“I thought I was dying,” he says, “but I thought to myself that if I did, I’d be OK with that, because I’d done something impossible.” He woke up the next morning happy to be alive, happy that he’d completed his first ultra, and even happier that he was closer to getting into Badwater. Two weeks later he ran in the Las Vegas marathon. He ran Badwater just six months after that—and finished fifth.

It was the start of a journey whose course no one could predict, not even Goggins.

He routinely makes the podium in some of the world’s most challenging ultra-endurance races, yet he only takes enough prize money to cover his travel expenses. He was named one of Runner’s World magazine’s 2008 Heroes of Running, even though none of his goals involved running. He says that he hates to swim, hates to bike, hates to run and still does them all on a daily basis—precisely because he hates to.

Over the past two years, Goggins has achieved numerous incredible feats of athleticism, confounding people who try to classify him. Is he an athlete? A stunt performer? A genetic phenomenon? A superhuman?

Goggins’ life is one of profound focus and determination. When he was 13 years old, he attended a speech from a pararescue jumper of the U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command. Goggins never forgot that man’s inspiring story of a parachuting accident that broke most of his bones and required a tracheotomy. Nonetheless, the airman pushed himself through rehab back onto active duty, and he was jumping again within a year. From that moment, Goggins understood what he wanted his life to be, as well as the resolve to not waste a moment in pursuing his goals.

After four years in the Air Force, and a few years of trying to make it as a professional football player, a 290-pound Goggins stood in a Navy recruiting center and proclaimed that he wanted to become a member of the SEAL(s). The recruiter told Goggins that a man of his stature would never make it through training. Two months of intense dieting and exercise later, Goggins stood in the same recruiting office at 190 pounds. Goggins was forced through the SEAL(s)’ infamous hell week twice, but finally achieved his goal in 1998. From there, Goggins continued to defy the odds. He’s the only member in the U.S. Armed Forces to complete SEAL(s) training, the U.S. Army Ranger School and Air Force tactical air controller training. He’s also faced combat in Iraq.

Only three months after completing Badwater in 2006, he competed in the Ultraman World Championships triathlon in Hawaii. He placed second in the three-day, 320-mile race, cycling 261 miles in two days on a rented bicycle. Before training for that race, he’d never ridden a bike competitively. Goggins returned to Badwater in 2007 to finish third. Over the next two years, he competed in another 14 ultra-endurance races, with top-five finishes in nine of them. He set a course record at the 48-hour national championships, beating the previous record by 20 miles with a whopping total distance traveled of 203.5 miles and earning himself a spot among the top 20 ultramarathoners in the world. He became the subject of a Runner’s World feature, and the Navy asked him to appear in a recruiting commercial. Notoriety, awards, medals, achievements.

Other than the money he’s raised for the Special Operations Warrior Foundation, none of these matter to Goggins. He’s not trying to be number one in the world. He’s not interested in how many races he’s run. He doesn’t keep track of the miles he’s gone through. There’s no scoreboard; there’s no finish line.

At the beginning of our interview, Goggins said with fervent sincerity: “I’m nobody special.” It’s a mentality that’s evident in his keeping with the military convention of referring to himself in the third person by his last name only. He’s not the ultra-athlete David Goggins, or David Goggins or even Petty Officer Goggins. Just Goggins. Just another guy.

It’s not a contradiction of terms. He doesn’t live in denial of his accomplishments, but what he emphasizes—what is the essential fiber of Goggins—is that not a moment is wasted dwelling on them.

“Ultraman is nothing like Ironman,” he says. “There’s no huge crowd, or party or even an announcer. You hardly even notice the finish line. For people who do these races, it’s not about that. Watch the video of me crossing the finish line at Kona,” he says. “I’m not overwhelmed with the accomplishment. I’m looking down at my watch, and it’s not to check my finishing time. I’m looking to see what time it is and how much time I have left in the day for another workout. I’m already thinking about the next thing. As of that moment, Ironman is done. It’s time to move on.”

Nevertheless, he’s living the spirit of Ironman to the utmost, discovering just how much he can do. Every day, he’s up and running by 3 a.m. After a 20-mile run, he bikes 20 miles to work. He runs at lunch, if he can. Then it’s back home (on the bike, of course) to join his wife for weight training in the gym. He’s in bed no earlier than midnight most nights. Don’t bother re-reading to check your math: It really does add up to only three hours of sleep a night. When people ask if he uses supplements to help him train, he says that he takes a giant suck-it-up pill every morning and washes it down with a refreshing can of hard. This isn’t boasting. It’s military-speak for the hardest part of Goggins’ daily regimen: getting out of bed.

Goggins takes his suck-it-up pill every morning because no matter how unpleasant it is to swallow, he’s seen something that’s even more unpleasant to contemplate as the alternative. He’s seen “the look.”

It was during one of his SEAL(s) hell week experiences that Goggins saw it. Running on only 15 minutes of sleep in three days, having gone through multiple obstacle courses and other punishing training events, his class had just been let out of the freezing cold water of Southern California. There stood Goggins and his classmates, shivering on the beach, when one of the instructors barked the order to get back in the water. The man beside Goggins turned and looked at him with a hollow gaze. He didn’t say anything. He didn’t have to. “The look” said it all. The man turned and left the group. He quit.

Goggins views “the look” as a form of surrender, abandoning everything that he stands for. Surrender is never an option. “Running is running,” he says. “It hurts, but that’s all it does. The most difficult part of the training is training your mind. You build calluses on your feet to endure the road. You build calluses on your mind to endure the pain. There’s only one way to do that. You have to get out there and run.” Goggins stresses that he’s not selling himself as some kind of model for athletic success. “I don’t know if everyone should be doing this, definitely not the way I’ve done it,” he says.

“I don’t follow a training philosophy. If I’d gone at things slower and trained better, I’d probably be better now. But I just didn’t have time. I had three years of non-deployable time; that was it. But I knew I could take the pain, so that’s what I did. The body breaks, but it will heal back. It will adjust.” Goggins’ body has certainly made adjustments. The 290-pound powerlifter is gone, replaced with a lean 190-pound runner with 4 percent body fat.

Those adjustments didn’t come without work, though. In the beginning, Goggins and his wife were constantly finding creative ways to apply tape and cushioning to his feet and legs to keep him up and running.

He never took days off, and while the word “surrender” isn’t in his vocabulary, neither is “recovery workout,” so he spent a lot of time with his body held together with an array of wraps.

“We all have our own journey in life, I’m focusing on mine,” Goggins says. His journey is one about his own limits and recognizing that life is too short not to get out there and enjoy everything the world has to offer.

“I remember watching this guy on television climbing Mount Everest without oxygen,” he recalls. “Every movement just looked agonizing, but he made it. And I thought to myself, ‘That guy is really living without regrets.’ When I get to the end of the road, I don’t want to be thinking about the time I wasted or the things I could have done with that time. This world has so many challenges, I have to keep moving on.”

That spirit helped Goggins through one of the most difficult challenges of his life in May. During a routine checkup, his doctor discovered a birth defect known as artrial septum defect (ASD), or a hole in his heart, and it’s only able to function at about 75 percent capacity. In “normal” people, this would prevent them from doing activities such as scuba diving or anything at high altitude, because the excess of oxygenated blood that is unable to leave the heart can cause the muscle to bleed out.

[keitznic]

Only a few days after learning of the condition, Goggins had surgery to repair his heart and is recovering well. So well, in fact, that he started doing light workouts only two weeks after surgery. It will likely take six months until he is fully recovered and able to compete in endurance events again.

Many people have described Goggins as “an animal” or “a machine.” He’ll likely remain in the history books as one of the greatest ultra-endurance runners and triathletes, and his temporary absence from the multisport community is truly a loss. He’ll still tell you he’s nobody special. But one thing is certain: He is human.

Hey Everyone,
This is David's family. We wanted to give you an update on David and what he has been up to. I believe we now know why David hates what he does so much.... He realy is suffering out there. About 10 days ago we recieved some bad news. David went in to the Doctor for a check up and they found a birth defect in his heart. It is known as ASD (atrial Septum Defect). To explain it breifly, this means he has a hole in his heart. He has had it since birth and no one was able to detect it on routine check ups. It is very dangerous in scuba diving, high altitude and extreme athletics. It can cause the heart to go into heart failure without warning. So, to make a long story short. For 34 years David has been working with about 3/4 of his heart. The right side of his heart was recieving too much oxygenated blood and it wasn't going to the rest of his body like it should.
On Thursay of last week David went in for surgery. They were able to repair the hole and he is now in the process of recovering. It will be a long 6 month road back to his normal self, but trust me when we say, he will be back to his normal self
Thank you all for your support of David. It means a lot to him and to us as well.
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title: cant sleep
Blog post by David goggins

Don't ever let anyone tell you that you can not do something. All my life I heard that I couldn't do something. My mom was working 2 jobs and going to college. I was an African American kid in an all white school. They tried to say that I couldn't....but I did. I wanted to be a Navy SEAL. They said I couldn't because I was too big and couldn't hardly swim....but I did. They said I couldn't go to Ranger School because my schedule as a SEAL wouldn't allow it....but I did. They said that I couldn't run 100 miles because I had never ran a marathon...but I did. They said I could never complete the Ultraman because I had never done a triathlon...but I did. Now they say I can't do RAAM because it's too soon. It's not safe....but....
Life is not always going to be this care free happy place that we would like it to be. What life throws at you is a lot of negativity. It's what you do with that negativity that makes you a stronger human being. When you hear the words, no, you can't, impossible, never...what do you think to yourself? Do you cower inside and run from the challenge. Or do you face it...head on...asking for more?
Failure is an option. It's what you do with the failure that makes you who you are. Our failures mold us. I have failed at several things in my life. What sets some of us apart, is that when we fail, we can't sleep at night. It haunts us until we have our time at redemption

[keitznic]

David Goggins, one of the world’s top endurance athletes, recently underwent emergency heart surgery. He came on The Competitors last night to fill us in on the details and to tell us his plans for the future.

http://competitorradio.competitor.co...gins/#more-329

(cliffnotes)-went through surgery still awake


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here's are some article's by David Goggins

A lot of people think that I have been running my whole life. The fact is that I hadn't even ran a marathon until November 2005. I came off of a deployment from Iraq and I heard that several SEAL/s had been killed in a combat situation. I wanted to do something to raise money for their families. Being a SEAL, I knew that selling hot dogs and having a bake sale wouldn't do it. So, I googled the 10 hardest events in the world and the Badwater 135 came up. I called the race director and explained the situation. He was somewhat amused that I had never even ran a marathon and wanted to attempt one of the hardest foot races in the world. After talking with him he made it very clear that this race wasn't to be taken lightly and that I would have to qualify in order to participate in the race. I had to qualify by running 100 miles in 24 hours. It just so happened that there was a race in San Diego the following weekend. It was a 24 hour race where your run straight for 24 hours around a 1 mile track. So, six days later my wife and I grabed a lawn chair, lunch box cooler, myoplex, and ritz crackers to take to the race. That's right... only those items. Also keep in mind that I weighed a lot at the time.
I took off running and felt good for about 70 miles. Then I stopped to take a break. That was the first problem.....I sat down in the lawn chair and my blood pressure went crazy due to poor nutrition. I sat there for about 10 minutes and I had to go to the bathroom really bad. When I attempted to stand, I quickly realized how bad of shape I was really in. I was so dizzy that I couldn't stand for a second. So, after retaking my seat in the chair I looked at my wife and told her that I had to go to the bathroom. She looked at me confused. So, I told her more clearly... "I'm going to take a s*** on myself in this chair."
And so I did...
I then saw the blood running down my leg when I urinated.
My wife being a nurse informed me that my kidney's were shutting down and that I needed to go to the hospital. I told her that I had 30 miles left.
She helped me up and we started walking around the track at a 35 minute mile pace. I asked her If I would complete the 100 miles in 24 hours at this pace and she said no. So, I did what I had to do and some how by the grace of God started running again. I completed 101 miles in just under 19 hours. I had broken all the small bones in my feet and my kidneys were failing. My wife drove the car onto the race course and put me into the back of the car. We live on the second floor of an apartment complex and we had to somehow get up the stairs. So, I draped my arms around her neck from behind and she had to practically drag me up the stairs. After she me in the shower and she saw that I was urinating dark dirt brown, she begged me once again to go to the hospital. I looked her in the eye and said....
Just let me enjoy this pain I'm in.
And I did. I enjoyed how hard I had just pushed myself and I wanted to feel every bit of that.

[keitznic]

THE MAN IN THE MIRROR

What do your really want?

Every morning when you wake up what is the first thing you think about doing. I'm not talking about work, family ect. I'm talking about personal ambition. What is it that you desire to do?
Think about that. Then think about how long you have thought about doing it. Next, think about what you have done in the last year, 2, 3 or 4 years to get you closer to that goal. For some of you the answer may be simple. You may desire to do something and work toward that everyday. For others, it is harder. Some of you may desire to do something that seems impossible to do because of obligations. Work, family, and finances, can all play a role in what we desire. I will tell you this though. You will only truely want something when you work everyday at getting that something. What I am trying to say is that if you wake up in the morning and your true desire is to run a marathon, if you don't think about that everyday and work toward that everyday, you will never get there. I believe in life you have to be selfish sometimes. When we get older and can no longer do the things that we desire, what then? If you want to acheive something you have to be selfish. You have to put that goal in front of everything else. When you wake up in the morning it is the first thing you have to think about. You have to say to yourself, what is it that I am going to do today to bring me closer to my goal? For some, it may be waking up an hour earlier everyday to get to the gym. For some, it may be putting back $100 dollars a month toward that dream vacation. Whatever it is that you want to do, work for it. It has to become a part of your daily life. Until then, it will remain a desire, or a goal. You have to be upfront with those around you. Let them know what you are expecting to do, what you want to do. If they don't understand or support it, so what?!? It is your goal and your desire! Do what you have to do to get there. When you do. It will be the best moment in your life. Most likely you will find that those who truely care about you want you to succeed. They want to help you acheive. Your mind has to overtake you. You have to be in constant pursuit. When it is all said and done with you will see that you were truely not selfish. Through your hard work and dedication you probably inspired some of your friends and family to do better themselves. A lot of people say that I'm selfish. Is that the case? I have been able to raise a lot of money for a good cause. So you tell me. Is the time and energy worth it? Why don't you find out for yourself? A lot of people say that they are the ones that have to look at themselves in the mirror everyday. Everyday when I see my reflection. I see a man who is not yet satisfied. What does your reflection say to you?

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Do Something You Hate EVERYDAY

I do and say a lot of things that a lot of people don't like or don't agree with. But, I have always remembered one thing my mom said to me when I turned 18 and left for the military.....
She said, "This is your life now. Do with it what you want."
So, that is what I am doing. That being said, here goes.
This title is more that a meaning. It's a lifestyle. Even though people don't believe me, I have always said that I hate all physical activity other than weight lifting. There is no better way to grow as a person than to do something that you hate everyday. For me the worst feeling in the world is waking up and knowing that I have to punish myself. I know every morning when I wake up that I'm going to be putting myself through worse pain than I did the day before. That is not a very comforting thought. The second I get through running, or biking, I'm already dreading the next day. It is a constant cycle of misery that I have been stuck in for the last 3 years. It was so much easier to get up in the morning and just hit the weights. As you endurance athletes already know, to do the kind of stuff that we do, a couple hours a day just doesn't cut it. I find that when I wake up in the morning and am so sore I think that I should take a day off. But that is when the voice comes and says..."What the hell are you thinking?!? Someone right now is out there suffering and you are thinking about sleeping in, going to the movies, resting, eating, watching the game, and taking a day off?!?
These are the days I usually have my hardest workouts. Like I said before, I know that a lot of the things I do and say are not what all the trainers, and coaches will tell you and for good reason. But there is no book on how I train. I'm training the mind. I don't train to win. I train to keep going when the body doesn't want to go anymore. By doing something that you hate everyday you start to realize that everything comes to an end. The feeling you have after is the feeling of victory. I think that is what we are all looking for in life. Then you realize you have to do it again the next day. That is why I tell everybody that my life has no finish line.
Life is just EVIL! There is no way around it. All we can do is just embrace the pain.

[keitznic]

'get back up'
I know that some of you would like me to post more often, but the truth is...I can't. Nor do I want to when I have nothing to say that won't get you out of your everyday mentality. I am writing today because my life again has given me some things to overcome. As you all know I was going back in for another check up on my heart in December. Well, unfortunately the surgery didn't do what we had hoped that it would do. I still have a hole in my heart and will eventually be going back in for another surgery. But... Not until I complete my mission. I am still in pursuit of the 2010 Race Across America starting June 9th. It will only be God or death that keeps me from it.
All that being said, I am not referring to my heart when I talk about the things I must overcome. All my life I have been tested. Mentally, and physically. I can't say emotionally because I honestly don't think I have many emotions left. Most of you can relate to what I am about to talk about. It seems sometimes that no matter how hard you work things or people continuously get in your way. I want to answer some questions that I have gotten over the last several months. People seem to assume that my job in the SEALs is to be an athlete. That is not the case at all. While I have a few, or should I say, very few, people that support my personal goals such as RAAM, the truth is that I work a full time job. In order to train for these events I do it on my own time. I generally wake up around 3 am to get a ride in before work, and then will ride to and from work during the week, followed by extra miles on my way home. Without giving away my full training schedule, let's just say, I don't sleep much, definitely don't eat enough, and any free time I may think I'm going to have is spent on the bike. I'm telling you this because it is not easy to achieve anything personally or professionally by depending on other people. Nine times out of ten, you are alone. Alone in your mind, alone at your desk, alone in your wants and needs. People are not going to understand your goals because they have separate goals. It's not easy to do things alone. You must deviate from the crowd. This is why it is easier to go for a run with people. It's much easier when you know that someone is out there suffering with you. You can't look over and see that when you are suffering alone. But let me tell you... you are alone. You are alone when you cross the finish line, you are alone when you do extra miles, you are alone when you don't get the promotion at work. You are alone. When you can learn to deal with being alone and not depend on the support of others, you become a stronger human being. I have always been alone in the things I've done. You have to expect failure, if you don't when I comes your way, you will not be able to get back up.
I have read countless blogs, articles, and talked to several people who don't think I really hate doing the things I do. And to be blunt about it... It pisses me off. I have never taken the easy way. I have had to fail several times before I succeed at something, and sometimes it was at no fault of my own. But I run, bike, all of the above because I hate it. By hating it and doing it I grow. I know that people will never understand that, but that is the way I live my life. Why choose something you like to do? Because it's fun? How do you grow as a person by doing fun things? You grow by testing yourself, by testing your mind to go where it doesn't want to go. If you take the easy road, you get easy results. You don't expect anything out of yourself. If you take the hard road,and you make yourself get through it, you will expect more out of your everyday life. If you don't achieve and let people keep you down, you will stay down. Not me... I choose to get back up. I choose to look the unwanted in the face. I choose to go after the unwanted with a smile. I choose to suffer. And from suffering I grow.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying don't have any fun. But this blog and what I say has nothing to do with fitness, has nothing to do with obesity, has nothing to do with winning, has nothing to do with running or biking. It's about life. The bottom line is this, when you get knocked down and when life comes at you from all different angles, take time to reset get back up and smile. Life doesn't like when it can't keep you down, especially when you smile back at it.

[keitznic]

here's a little chat i found online read it its funny stuff
this is what some guy posted on a blog about david goggins
and Goggins somehow found it and had to straighten him out

(BLOG POSTER- Lancelot)

David Goggins - holding down the ultrarunning scene for the brothas.....and what a pretty mother****er we have here, chiseled 6'1" 195 pounds, Navy Seal, Badwater, on and on. Oh Snap!...what's this? A 3:29:35 in last months LA Marathon? David, is that you?.... a 59.6% AG grading? WTF? What happened? I'm suspect, did you really run at 2:56 Boston? and that 3:08 Las Vegas qualified you? Qualifying for Boston at age 32 by 95 seconds.....tsk tsk....hummm...I don't know....my man...all the Ultra stuff is nonsense in my book, quit hiding in those weak field events and step up to the real game brah.......but know you're going to have to get your weight up if you even think about coming to New York City, that sub 60% AG grading on a flat marathon course in LA ain't gonna cut it my man. You've never cut a time to qualify you for the New York City Marathon - yes, I have some strings I can pull, but I'm sure you can earn your way in, no? Holla back when you're really ready to get down - that's right, I'm talking New York City - if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere - but be forewarned...it runs through Harlem....where you gotta go hard, or go home. For my female readers - I present to you David Goggins, the prettiest mother****er in running. Have a great day!


(David goggins) says-
I run for fallen soldiers. Why do you run? It's a damn shame that I am one of the only African American endurance athletes and you are putting me down. Do something possitive for the community. Not that I need to justify myslef to you but I wanted you and your readers to know that on Saturday before the LA marathon, I did a double century in Death Valley. (200 mile Bike Ride) I then drove to LA to PACE a fellow soldier wanted to run a 3:30 ergo the 3:29 that you commented on. By the way the Las Vegas marathon was my first marathon which I did 10 days after running my 1st 100 mile race. (weighing 240) Don't go off my word though, you seem to have enough time on your hands so you can look it up on line as you have everything else. Boston was also another training run. I thought it would be cool to run under 3 hours. So I just went out there and did it. What they don't show you on the results you found is that I ran another 26.2 miles to the start line, both marathons by the way were faster than your 3:05. I guess what I am telling you, is that you shouldn't put people down that you don't fully know, I am an animal and I train everyday the distance that you train UP to do. Don't question me. If you would like to see for yourself I would be happy to join you in New York this year. NO, lets make it a date. The question is will you show up 3 hours before to run to the start line with me? I can't wait to run through Harlem to visit my aunt's and uncles again. I'll let them know I'm coming. By the way, please make sure you can run at least a 2:50 because I don't want al your fans to think less of you. I hope you can back up what you say. I promise I will see you in NY. Please make sure you post this so everyone knows.

I'm sorry I passed over your statement about the "FLAT" courses that I've run. Just take the following into consideration.
HURT 100- 26,000 ft of elevation gain
Leadville 100- (avg elevation 10,200ft) 16,000 ft elevation gain
Plain 100 (SELF SUPPORTED- for those who call me weak)23,000 ft elevation gain
These are just 3 of the 9 100 mile TRAIL runs I did last year. By the way, If finished the year off breaking the course record in Texas by running 203.5 miles in 48 hours. Anymore comments or questions???
I apologize for all the stats, I don't usually speak of myself, I just find this to be so amusing. I did 3 100 mile races in 21 days and I'm WEAK?!?! ELEVATION! You think a marathon anywhere has elevation? Do you think that a hill in a marathon is elevation? If you want elevation in a marathon, try pikes peak. New york is at SEA LEVEL. Is New York your BIG RACE? Sorry to go off but ELEVATION? you are going to talk to me about ELEVATION? I logged over 7500 miles last year in the Mountains and your talking about ELEVATION? HARLEM? Man, get serious, ELEVATION? I'm having fun with you. Did you want to talk more about ELEVATION? I haven't had this much fun in a long time. I love when I'm being questioned. Thanks for making me smile today Brah! Man start training.

For Everyone's Viewing Pleasure!
http://www.ingnycmarathon.org/entrantinfo/elevation.pdf

http://hurthawaii.blogs.com/HURT07Ru...ionProfile.pdf

These are the elevation charts of the races in question
The NYC marathon and
the HURT 100 mile trail run
my first trail run
please take the time to type these in if you are unable to click and view
ELEVATION?!?
You had me worried for a second about the elevation. Damn! Those first few miles climbing to a whole 280ft is going to be a gut check! It's going to be just as hard as getting to my mailbox. I hope I can keep up. Brah,I see you have Ted Corbitt on your page, I don't understand how you contradict yourself like you do. Why don't you focus on the bigger problems in this world. We have had almost 4,000 troops killed in Iraq so that you are able to run and and post this BS on your site. I can't believe when I look up and find myself fighting for peoples freedom when they are worried so much about how someone looks, or how fast they run. What if I ran a 8 hr marathon, who gives a damn? I'm here in this world to try and make a positive difference. Why don't you stop putting people down and start putting the positive things that African American's are doing. Young kids will look at this for guidence and see a black man putting down another. I want to be clear. I'm not trying to give you my resume or be cocky. I want to clarify to everyone that I'm so amused by this because I run to raise money for fallen soldier's childern to go to college And I'm getting crap for running a 3:29 marathon. I see you have Obama on your website. You know that he is about change in America, why don't you make a change and set the example for our youth? Instead of this crap on your website. I hope you still question my abilities. I try to find the limits to the human soul everyday. NOW I PRESENT TO YOU,,,,,,DAVID GOGGINS

[keitznic]

(Lancelot)
Goggins, I appreciate your comments, just having some sporting fun albeit at your expense & lampooning Ferg Hawke's love-worship-tribute Wedding style video montage of you. This site is read all over the world - heavily in NYC - lots of writers on running check it too - I've introduced you to new fans.

You're quite off the mark in your comments - scanning the blog illustrates that - there's more running and marathoning knowledge here than just about anywhere - and that's 100% accurate for African Americans - however I appreciate you playing along - problem for you is you're in over your head. I am a Californian too - however this is New York City - you dwell in the shallow end of the pool....I run where the best in the world run - and you don't qualify.

4 Facts for you to come to terms with:

1) Your best performance Marathon performance, Boston @ age 32 equates to a 70.96 Age Graded Score. My best marathon performance, NYC @ age 44 equates to a 71.54% Age Rated Score. You are not at my level David (and have never been there at the Marathon).


3) What are you? 34, 35 now?...You have no idea what it takes to be a Master runner, 40+, and train & perform competitively at the marathon distance. I am built similar to you albeit only 5'9" but have a 24 bmi. It's not the same at still racing a marathon - something very different than trotting an ultra (your game).

4) Lastly, you, David Goggins, have never performed at a level where you qualified for entry into the NYC Marathon. Isn't that really kind of the bottom line David and the big elephant in the room? All your ultra based blah blah blah is rather meaningless at the end of the day in light of this fact. You've never attained the standard David to earn entry, what should we conclude from that fact?

1 + 2 + 3 + 4 = Sit Down David Goggins. As I said from the start, you're in over your head.

Yes, I qualified for the NYC Marathon in the NYC Marathon on the same very course of the NYC Marathon. 4 Simple Facts. Now instead of offering speech that amounts to diversion of the point, why don't you just qualify for New York? Seems simple enough, no? I respect everything about you - and I've not spoken opinion here, I've illustrated 4 facts that amount to me being able to challenge you to be better at running the standard, the marathon, - than you've ever been before.

I would think a guy like you can soldier up and deal with it, no? Now applications to the NYC'08 Marathon are being accepted and the lottery for entry in the NYC '08 Marathon is also open, you Goggins can either 1) reach a standard and earn your way in, something you've never been able to do, 2) enter the lottery, cross your fingers, click your heels and make a wish hoping you get picked, or 3) ask me for a favor. Oh, I forget, I'm sure you can play the "military card" and the NYRR are good people - they'll welcome you in the race that way too.

(david goggins) says-
You Lance do not get it. You are a grown man looking on line for a man doing a job to help military familys. I do not care about 26.2 miles. You are Funny,I love how you are your biggest fan. I love all the info about marathons you have. I do 100 mile races. I'm reading your stuff here thinking. This guy is telling me about how sick he was in a marathon, take a SIU (suck it up pill) and run MR hard MAN from Harlem. Your life is about marathons. If you look at my running, I Started running in 2005 when I weighed 280 pounds. I started running to raise money for fallen troops. I run ultramarathons to raise the money. You are an older Man running marathons good for you. You will not find me looking you up on line. And who cares about 60.5% AG grading. Just run man. I will give you some help, to run your 3:00 marathon when you start to hurt run faster take a SIU pill(suck it up pill) you should know that with all your great running background. I step up everyday and do the right things. Once again I run marathons for training. I hear you say when you were my age you did this and that, I don't care,I don't even know who you are. You are a man who runs marathons and goes on line to look up people. Once again great job when you wre younger. I don't care man, I don't train for your 26.2. If I see a marathon I can jump in I will. I did boston just to do boston. You talk about me being over my head. You run marathons an dream about when you were my age. I will be your age one day and when that day comes, I will see a young man like myself and help him.You are a old school black runner I am a new school black run. That is it you run 13.1 and 26.2 good on you for that. I run ultramarathons and do long bike rides. I am not trying to be in your marathon club. If you like I can get you a ticket to the NAACP awards in LA I am the main speaker at that event. That is what I work on giving back to people trying to do good. That event is NOV 8th. The week after your big NY race. Be a role model for other people, get over yourself. You think I am trying to be a great marathon runner I have done 3 marathons in in my 3 years of running. If you like finding Black runners holding it down, Then giving them your resume at least find one that cares. No the goal for me is not NY marathon, it is to raise 1,000,000 dollars for a good cause. I am not at your level you say. You are a older man looking me up on line. You know all about me, Who are you? I forgot you are the older man dreaming of when you were 33 years old. you brought up the NYC marathons "hard" course again. Do you honestly think that that would be a challenge for me? or any other Ultra distance runner? I train with guys that when we go out on an easy day consists of 30 miles with at least 6,000ft of elevation gain. Man I've done a race where I swam 6.2 miles. got out of the water, biked 261, and ran a double marathon, both of my splits are faster than your PR at NY. You mention that being a master runner is so much harder, the average age of an ultra runner is around 45 years old. The man Ferg Hawke you put down, is 48 yrs of age and weights 195. His MASTER time in the 100k is (which is 62.5 miles) is a 6:39. This is faster than your marathon splits. I could give you examples of men this age all day who can kill guys my age, so if you really want to try and stand on the MASTER leg, you might as well sign off. You are in luck though, there is no need to fret about me not being able to qualify for the NYC marathon. My sponsers there in NY have all ready registered me for it, as a matter of fact, if you look really hard you may find a half marathon that may have qualified me I do more races a year than you will ever no. I don't need to compare myself to you as a marathoner. Like you have read I trotted a 52.4 miles at a 6:21 pace. I guess that is quite a trot huh? Please further your knowledge about Ultra Running before you make unresearched comments. I would love to see you trot through Death Valley with me in July. 135 miles, 120-130 degree temp. You challenge me for your marathon, I challenge you for my game. Only difference. I do marathons for fun at your pace. I would love to see you having fun in a 135 mile race. You talk about getting sick, after you have run 75 miles in a 130 degree temp, how do you think you are supposed to feel. But you won't find me telling you about that because that is how we live in the ultra world. We get sick and still have 3 marathons to go. I don't know when running became such a competition. I always thought a marathon was a huge accomplishment no matter how fast or slow you run it in. But, according to you, based on age, all people in my age group must run under a 3:29 to be considered anything in your book. I'm reading all of your 4 points you made. I'm reading about Paul Tergat and these are all great marathon runners, I commend them. I am a runner of all distances. I'm sorry I have never performed at a level that would qualify me for the NYC marathon, or have I? Go online and do more research before you assume. Start looking up half marathons. Like I said before, I'm having fun with you also. But you didn't answer my question about joining me 3 hours before the race to run to the start. Please don't take any of this wrong, you are having a good time. You just happened to find a person who has fun the same way. I hope we continue this for a while. But, you don't have to much to talk about you run half marathons and marathons. I run into a whole other relm. I can also throw in swimming, and ultra cycling, not to mention 3 special operations military schools. But please continue telling me about your marathons. Why don't you experience more than a marathon? Life has a lot more to offer than NYC. I love all the factuals about percentages and ages, give me more of those. I like to wrap myself up in the flag, It's what allows me to do the things I do. It's what allows YOU to do the things YOU do. Enjoy your marathon training through Harlem. Your the Man Harlem26.2. I'm off to do my marathon now.

[keitznic]

post on david goggins blog- by him for all the skeptics

One of the things that is quite common is having things thrown at me. Most people who are out that late don't like to see me.
One story I can tell you is this. I left for my morning training run around 3AM I went out to a trail about an hour from my house. It is an out and back course and several sections can be accessed throughout the course for people who want to go straight to the top of the mountain. Anyway, I was running in the dark. It was pouring rain and freezing. I was about 5 miles into my run and approaching the top of the mountain. I looked up and saw a guy sitting on a rock with an umbrella. Needless to say I thougth this is unusual...... Anyway, as I ran past I said hello to the guy. He just waived back. Then at the turnaround on my way back I was passing by him again and he said, "Good day to work out isn't it David?"
I was taken back and stopped dead in the middle of my stride. I turned to face the guy and said, "Excuse me?" He said, "you are David Goggins correct?"
You know me, I'm quite crazy, so needless to say, I was a little on edge that this guy was out in the middle of the night in the pouring rain and happened to know my name. I was ready to throw down if need be.
The guy could tell that I was about to be violent and quicly started to explain that he was a local sports writer that had heard about me online. He and some of his buddies had a bet going that my workout schedule was not near as "grueling" as people had said it was. So, based on a hundred dollar bet, this guy had been shadowing me for 2 days. He was driving down the road by my work during the mornig to see if I would be riding my bike. He would then see if I would go for a run at lunch. And so on. Anyway. His buddies gave him crap and said that that was all good but he didn't have proof of anything truely crazy. So, he waited some more. When he saw it raining outside he knew that if I was who I say I am that I would be out running soon. So, he parked near my house and knowing what car I drove he followed me from my house to this trail at 3AM. He then parked at a trailhead nearest to the top of the mountain to see If I would actually run the whole course. He was so happy to find out that I would and that he would win the bet.


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for anyone who wants to hear more about goggins here are some interviews

http://competitorradio.competitor.com/?s=david+goggins

[keitznic]

blog post by david
I do hate, running, biking, swimming, ect. I was 290lbs twice for a reason. I enjoy lifting weights. I can't tell people that all types of physical fitness is fun, because I truly don't believe that it is. I think that people in general enjoy what they are good at. For instance, I enjoy lifting weights. I am also good a lifting weights. I can't tell people that running, biking ect is going to be enjoyable for them because chances are, it's not. If you tell a 250 pound man to go out and run or anything of that nature. He is not going to enjoy it. It is going to be very painful and exhausting.
I believe with all of my soul that I have become a better person because I make myself do the things I don't enjoy. I believe to help obesity in America that it is important to spread the message that it is going to suck to loose weight. But, you also don't have a choice. You have to do it. If you con people who are overweight and out of shape into believing that working out is fun. They will stop after they realize that it isn't fun.
However, if you tell them that it is going to hurt and it is going to be painful, but you have to do it for your health....they won't quit when they experience those things.
You have to get out of your comfort zone to become a healthier, better person. You have to go outside your box. You have to go outside the normal and do the things that you may not want to do.
I believe that fighting obesity in America has to start with getting people in the right mindset that it has to be done regardless of their own personal feelings to it. I was raised by a mother that worked 3 jobs to go through college and a World War II vet that believed in being raised with discipline and a firm hand when needed. Maybe that is why I am how I am. Maybe you like to run because you are good at it. I don't no. But I can't tell people that physical fitness is fun, because for 90% of the population, it won't be.
There are a lot of exercises in the world that people can find enjoyable, like I said I find lifting weights very enjoyable. But like I was saying sometimes you much leave normal behind to grow as a person. What has helped me grow as a person is putting myself at the starting line of some of these horrible races knowing that I don't like to run or to bike. However, when I get through with the race the person that comes out the other side is a person that has grown. The things I say may not be for everyone, nor are they intended to be. I was raised old school and this is just how I live my life.

[Gizmosbro2]

This guy is pretty amazing, i have videos on him before.


.....anyone see the runner guy on the TV show SUPERHUMANS? He was quite amazing too, although he was a genetic freak when it came to endurance running. I bet Goggins has something similar going on.

[keitznic]

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[keitznic]

Hi Everyone,This is David's wife, Aleeza. I have only ever posted David's health updates on here but I feel that I need to. So many of you read David's blogs and take them completely out of context! David is a man that hates to do these things, that is a fact. Another fact is that...yes...he does do them alone. Myself and many others support David in his races, however, he is always alone. He is talking about his mind, the thoughts, the miles he has to complete. He is not speaking of physically being alone, or spiritually for that matter. He is saying that when you are on mile 50 or you are at work and have a horrible day, no one can help you get past that in your mind. You can get encouragement and love and support all day, but the bottom line is...if you don't push through it mentally, you will never complete your mission.
And to those of you who post that David is selfish... David gives his life doing these things to help others and is the most grateful guy you will ever meet...but I'm sure you've never had a conversation with him have you? I have seen this man go through extreme pain and suffering because it may put just one more kid through college. I watched him break the bones in his feet during his first 100 mile race and I watched him piss blood on the kitchen floor after I drug him up the stairs and he passed out. Don't talk to me about him being selfish. I witnessed him run 24 hours, tear his quad and then keep going for another 24 because people had promised to donate money if he completed 200 miles in 48 hours. My husband is an old school man, many of which don't exist anymore.
Many of you that read this blog understand that David is not the average guy. Most people would not choose to put themselves through pain to raise money, but David knows that is what gains attention. He hates being on magazines, hates doing interviews, but he does it because he knows that it will help the foundation. Trust me, you won't see him much after the RAAM. This will be his last race. He has had a goal in mind of how much money he has wanted to raise for the foundation and that mission will be complete when he crosses that finish line.
Everyone seems to think that David is a paid athlete; I'm here to tell you he is not. He is a hard working military man that works well over full time hours and gets a paycheck every two weeks just like everyone else. We as a family have spent thousands of dollars in order to raise money for the foundation. I'm not writing this blog to give you our life story, I'm writing because I have seen several posts on the Internet and this blog lately that talks about David being selfish and that his wife mush hate him. The truth of the matter is... I couldn't be more proud of this man. He is a true warrior and takes that spirit into his life everyday.
David blogs to try and help people take on the challenges in their lives. Obviously some of you think that life should be fun and lived that way. David believes that if he isn't pushing himself to become a stronger human being, that he isn't living.
Those of you who take offense to what David says, shouldn't be on his blog. Maybe you will all understand when David finishes the RAAM and you don't see or hear about him again. And you sure as hell won't have to worry about him upsetting you by his blog posts. He has dedicated his life for the last several years to this foundation to raise a million dollars. Not for himself, but for the guys who died for this country that allow him the ability to do what he does in his everyday life.
Until you have witnessed David suffer through some of the pain that I have witnessed, you will never truly know what all he has done for others.
Instead of assuming how David's family life is...please feel free to ask questions. I'm more than happy to answer. And I don't mean what he eats for breakfast.
It's funny how people seem to think this is all a game. David has told you why he does it...to raise money, and test his limits. When you read his blog, a lot of you get what he has learned and are taking it on yourselves and becoming better people who have pushed to get outside of there comfort zone. Others just get upset.

[keitznic]

This guy is pretty amazing, i have videos on him before.


.....anyone see the runner guy on the TV show SUPERHUMANS? He was quite amazing too, although he was a genetic freak when it came to endurance running. I bet Goggins has something similar going on.

dean karnazes? ya ive seen that and if anything goggins has everything against him with him being born with a hole in him heart and only using 60-75% of it his whole life

watch this video or listen to the posdcast, the podcast explains a lot about his heart and training and how it all went down, not to mention he went through heart surgery awake
that podcast i here------>http://competitorradio.competitor.com/2009/06/329david-goggins/#more-329


http://www.mycarolinatoday.com/tag/navy-seal/

[keitznic]

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[Skyline89]

whats his height?

[keitznic]

6'3'' or 6'4'' i remember see how tall he was but i forgot for sure what it was

i think he says it in one of those podcast i posted

[kels_88]

I've seen a few of the videos about him before- he is one motivated and dedicated guy.

What I would really like to know is HOW does your body function on that little sleep???

[keitznic]

I've seen a few of the videos about him before- he is one motivated and dedicated guy.

What I would really like to know is HOW does your body function on that little sleep???

check out the podcast i have posted
theres a lot of info about his training, diet ect...

http://competitorradio.competitor.com/?s=david+goggins

[keitznic]

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[synthetic]

he is not human... a military created cyborg..

[keitznic]

he is not human... a military created cyborg..

seems like it... or is he just more human then most people?

[wes40138]

this guy is one of my heros. I first saw him on the SEALSWCC.com website in a video they had posted . Ultra moto!

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[msm3921]

thought this was a a good one to add to the thread

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[keitznic]

thought this was a a good one to add to the thread

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thats already up there on the first or second page but thanks for contributing

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[enken]

What a machine this guy is

brb running ultramarathons with a heart that only utilizes 75%

[keitznic]

What a machine this guy is

brb running ultramarathons with a heart that only utilizes 75%

this needs a bump!

[synthetic]

I saw him running in my city a month ago :)

[BPP]

this guy is amazing! ultra inspiring(no pun)

and lol @ the tool calling him out on that forum, what a pathetic human