They did it! Runtheusa.com

Crazy? 'cause he doesn't sell t-shirts? He just stayed out a bit longer than most of us do. He is quite modest and humble.

October 27, 2001 - Brian finished the Triple Crown today! He has hiked 7,371 miles in 300 days.

On the AT: ALL of 2,168 miles.

CDT: ALL of 2,558 miles.

PCT: ALL of 2,645 miles.

a random look at the log:

It's late but I was looking for water and trying to get close to 40 miles. I did neither. I'm melting snow for dinner water and I calculate 39.4 miles for the day. If I can get up at a decent hour and do another 39, I'll be in Ollalie tomorrow!

sweet, now that was a serious effort...

A tad more difficult than, "Took a nap. Played Vice City on PS2. Ate a huge plate of pasta with bread. Walked around the farm and fed some pigs. Went to bed. Ate pancakes and bacon. Walked 4 miles then started jogging. Stopped at Burger King and did a crossword puzzle for 2 hours and never completed it. Jogged 3 miles. Stopped by the side of the road and took a nap. Jogged 10 miles until Joe picked me up and took me to his house."

And these chumps have the balls to ask someone to buy a t-shirt?

From my observations of their website, it wasn't Scott and Dave's idea or plan to sell T-shirts. The website started to get a number of requests for them and so the webmaster obliged by going out and getting some. I never saw anything indicating that S&D cared about selling them.

As to the "freeloading", from my perspective it was not due to their desire to be cheap or save money. Instead, that was part of the adventure, in that it forced them to meet many new people along the way (generally fellow runners) and experience slices of Americana.

That was how I took it (and how S&D appeared to view it), as more of a somewhat interesting adventure on foot rather than an athletic achievement of epic proportions.

Good Lord Glory Days, a little bitter? And what is a "competitive" transcontinental crossing?

I'm not really bitter. I'm just a little tired of this new attitude of "OK, I'm about do something, so let's create an f'ing website, pump it up, promote it and do it". Here's a novel idea, just f'ing do it. I realize these two rich kids had to create a website because they needed a medium to drum up free food & lodging; and they're certainly able to do whatever the hell they want. God forbid they dip into their trust funds, savings or whatever, live cheap and actually cross the country like the rest of us peasants.

You guys who support these guys probably bash the Penguin. Well, these two are nothing but Penguins. They mocked running as much as he does. All they talked about was walking, then stopping and eating Whoppers and Dairy Queen Blizzards. Sounds very Penguinesque to me.

i am getting a kick out the "bashers" who are jealous of their accomplishment and don't have the time, ability, nor desire to pull off a feat like this.

Great job guys! Now go get on with your lives and you will always have some great memories!

Jesus Fucking Christ himself could post on this bulletin board and get flamed.

ha ha ha, ohhhh. you bashers, trashers and pathetic losers make me laugh so hard! you no like the way some fellow runners spend their holiday and it makes you so mad. do you think you are a perhaps taking yourselves too seriously. I have much joy imagining your world of anger and self importance. you must go now and focus on your very important training session so I will let you go for now.

I've been here for a while, my son or daughter. i think these two are worthy of a key to the sidegate to the barn of ... purgatory.

now go run or i shall smote you with holy cramps the likes of which you've never seen

Seamus McSeamus wrote:

Good Lord Glory Days, a little bitter? And what is a "competitive" transcontinental crossing?

Trans-American Footraces in summers of 1992 through 1995

Trans-Australia - 2001(?)

Trans-Europe - 2003

All multi-day ultra-length stage races. Tough events.

Plus, there have been some Trans-cons that have absolutely pressed the limits on the daily mileage. Al Howie ran across Canada averaging somewhere near 65 miles a day. I think the record crossing for the US is near 45 days. These are certainly "competitive Trans-cons."

Holy crap, what a bunch of whiney, jealous freaks we have on this board. Complaining about someone else's adventure, when really you just wish you were along for the trip.

Portland Runner had it right...

Instead of being "jealous", I've come up with an idea to get over my bitterness. Me and a buddy of mine are thinking about "running" the Appalachian Trail next summer. I'll let you guys know the internet address once we set it up. Here's the plan: we run/walk about 15, maybe 20 miles a day. We're going to need you guys to meet us at various scenic overlooks, trailheads, etc. at the end of each day, drive us to the nearest town, feed us, let us play video games, wipe our ass, and dump us back on the trail the next morning. Can I count on all of my running friends out there?

You can count on me! I'll even buy you a plane ticket when you get homesick.

......Of you 2 guys accomplishment. That is awesome........what an adventure. I bet you will have memories to last forever and tell your grandkids someday.

Did you lose much weight?

i've posted nothing here yet, but i would like to clear up just a few points. the t-shirts were in response to dozens of requests and suggestions from people who wanted to see them made. so we made them. i couldn't have cared less and didn't even buy one myself. the "rich" kids thing is kind of funny. if i have a trust fund somewhere will someone please tell me where to find. i would've done this adventure 3 yrs ago if it weren't for the over $30,000 in student loan debt i graduated with. so i worked for 3 yrs and paid it off. i currently have $371 to my name. as far as what we did and didn't do, we never made any claims about what we'd accomplish or how we'd do it. we wanted to run across the country. did we run every step....no. when we realized that we couldn't run every step were we gonna quit? absolutely not. we were never gonna quit. it was the best experience of my life and encourage all of you to find your dreams and chase them. you'll never regret it. thanks to all of you who supported us in the endeavour, and thanks to all of you naysayers as well. having you made finishing all that much sweeter......scott sehon

Run the former USSR. Now that will be an accomplishment.