Sarah Ford | April 7, 2015
North Carolina Man to Run Fifty Miles for Feed the Children
Ask someone who works two demanding jobs what they do in their听free time, and you may get one of these responses:
a) Sleep.
b) Chill out with some TV.
c) Free time? What free time?
But if you鈥檙e Thomas VonCannon of Raleigh, NC, there鈥檚 another option:
d) train for a fifty mile race and听.
鈥淢y wife will be the first to tell you, I鈥檝e always been a little insane,鈥 VonCannon says. He鈥檚 dreamed of taking on 鈥渙ff the wall races鈥 such as听the Black Hills 100, a grueling hundred-mile race in South Dakota in which only 35% finish. But to get there, he says, you need a fifty miler under your belt. So he registered for the听听April 18-19,听which runs along the Potomac River near Washington DC on a series of rocky and hilly trails.
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