Jason Mosel, the same guy who did 3,194 burpees non-stop for 12 hours back in March, is training for a new challenge: Running two marathons a day for more than a week straight.

Why?

For the same reason he nearly passed out trying to break the world record for burpees: To raise awareness about soldier suicide. For Mosel, a former Marine Corps soldier living in Corinth, Vt., that reason is personal.

"What is the reason you wake up every morning?" his fundraising page states. The lack of an answer nearly killed Mosel after he returned from a tour of duty in Iraq in 2004, a deployment during which he saw his friend and fellow soldier Geoffrey Morris blown apart by a rocket-propelled grenade in Ramadi. After surviving his own suicide attempt a year later, Mosel has been drawing attention to soldier suicide prevention ever since.

On May 21st next year, he will run in the Endurance Society Infinitus race in Goshen, Vermont. The website's description of the 888-kilometer race starts with "You will regret this!"

Mosel says he will run approximately 55 miles a day for 10 days straight, sleeping about four hours after each run. His goal is not only to finish the race but to raise more than $88,000 for the Josh Pallotta Fund started by Valerie Pallotta, mother of the Vermont National Guard soldier who killed himself following a 2010 deployment to Afghanistan.

Mosel wants to recruit 100 people to raise $888 dollars each to throw behind his fundraising efforts and run their own 888k race between now and May 31st. About 10 people have accepted the challenge so far.

"If it ain't hard, it ain't worth doing," said Mosel, who has already been training for months for the 2020 race as well as assembling a small army of volunteers to help manage him during the event.

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