Johnny Kuplack puts down his cappuccino and springs up to greet me. He has the stereotypically lithe, compact body of a distance runner. I learn that, after our meeting, while I grind through a 25-minute workout, Kuplack will do a quick 5-kilometer run up and down Phoenix’s Camelback Mountain. Then do it again.
For Kuplack, that’s a light morning, a way to stay loose as he prepares for the main event. In a few days, he’ll run 35 miles, or thereabouts. He’ll do the same the next day, and the next — for 100 consecutive days. Starting on Jan. 18 at Dana Point, California, he began a run to Auriesville, New York, where his 3,500-mile jog will end at the National Shrine of the North American Martyrs, which was just designated a national shrine by the U.S. bishops.
Why would anyone do this?
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