Michael Ortiz had already spent a year and a half working toward his goal of 100 100-mile races in 100 weeks. He’d be sad to see it end because he was supposed to stay inside. 'But there is a solution. ... Running 13,200 loops of your living room.'
Not so long ago, if you had asked Michael Ortiz if he’d consider running 100 miles in his living room, his answer would have sounded something like this:. You know, like, it's bad enough running 100 miles outside. Who on earth is going to do that in the living room? No way."One hundred miles is nearly four marathons back to back to back. Michael had run 58 100-mile races over the previous 58 weekends. His goal was to run 100 100-mile races in 100 weeks.
"Multiply that by 100. It would take 13,200 loops to hit a hundred miles," Michael says."And then I thought, 'Oh, my God. That's a lot.'" Michael and his older brother, David, were best friends. But in many ways, they couldn’t have been more different. "The number of times I'd ventured out to Brooklyn? Gosh, I could count them on my hands," Michael says."Seriously, I just don't go there at all. ... I never went.""He would tell me, 'Hey, you should go and travel more.' And I would tell him, 'Hey, you should, actually, I don't know, think about not taking that vacation and putting that towards a retirement fund.'"In 2010, David and his wife moved to Southern California.
"Everyone who spoke said the same things about him. You know, like, 'He was a great person.' 'He was very lively, very charismatic,'"Michael says."But the one thing that really stuck out was this is a man who lived. You know, it's very tragic that he died at 29 years old. But he lived."Taking Risks When Michael got to Coney Island, he didn’t just turn around and run back home. Instead, he stood in line for a Nathan’s hot dog.
After running the New York City Marathon, Michael started looking for bigger challenges. Here's Michael at the 2019 Antelope Canyon 100. "So, you know, in these races, you also have drop bags that you pack things like emergency gear or sneakers or whatever it is you might think you need at that point. And I told him, 'What drop bag?'
"So I crossed the finish line at 50 miles," Michael says."And, again, I felt in connection with my brother, David, because that was another milestone.""Here we go," Michael says."It's Monday, and I go back online." "I was on cloud nine after that. But, just like every other Monday morning, after completing something really big like that, I get the idea of, 'Can we do it again?'"David running the 2018 Chattanooga 100.
The third weekend in March, Michael flew to Utah for a race in Mesquite, Arizona. By then, San Francisco was already under lockdown. "And I almost published it," Michael says."Until I decided, 'Well, before we do this, let's just see if we can potentially run in the living room.'"
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