Modern day Forrest Gump runs across US in 100 days for charity

Source: Agencies | April 9, 2015, Thursday |

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THIS runner has got Forrest Gump-tion.

A Michigan man running 100 ultramarathons in 100 days will finish his amazing feat in Times Square on Friday — that is, if his battered feet can get him there, nydailynews.com reported.

“I’ve lost three toenails, and I probably have two more on the way out,” laughs Daren Wendell, 33, speaking from eastern Pennsylvania, where he was just recovering Tuesday after his 97th consecutive 29-mile run — a 5K farther than a marathon’s requisite 26.2 miles.

“But I’m feeling surprisingly better than most people think,” he adds. “My body has conditioned itself to run 30 miles a day and be OK.”

He set out from the Santa Monica Pier in California on New Year’s Day, and has been hoofing it across the country ever since, much like the titular character in the 1994 Tom Hanks movie.

Wendell will have run through 10 pairs of sneakers and bounded across 14 states before completing the punishing 2,900-mile trek through the scorching Mojave Desert, the frozen Missouri countryside, past Illinois fields shrouded in fog and herds of shaggy Pennsylvania buffalo, and everything in between.

Wendell, a professional fundraiser, spent two and a half years preparing for this cross-country running challenge to raise $140,000 for ActiveWater, which provides safe drinking water to Ethiopian communities.

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Modern day Forrest Gump runs across US in 100 days for charity

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