Karnazes Takes the Long Way Home

Dean Karnazes has decided to run home from New York City:

"Today is the most liberating, terrifying, exciting, and confusing day of my life. I am walking out of a hotel room in New York City, and running west. Why west? Because that is the direction of my house in San Francisco. Yes, I am running home from the New York City Marathon, the final marathon of the Endurance 50, across the country back to my house."

My first reaction was that Dean is jumping the shark with this one. But my next feeling was, "Why not?" If Dean can make it work for his family and his finances — and can physically pull it off — then it makes more sense to me than sitting in a cubicle for 40 hours a week. So...go Dean! Keep writing your life's next chapter and inspiring others to run.

Here's a trailer for the Endurance 50 documentary coming next spring: