Tour de Pain 2008

A few weekends go, Josh and Brian competed in a very unique race down in Jacksonville. The race was actually three different races in a 24 hour time period. It is appropriately called the Tour de Pain. The first race is a beach 4-mile beach run in Jax Beach on Friday night. This was the first beach run Josh had ever done and definitely one of the larger turn-outs of the races he has done since being down here. He got stuck in the back but passed over 800 runners to finish out strong. After a tasty carb loading dinner at an Italian restaurant and some Olympic ceremony watching, it was off to bed for the next race bright and early Saturday morning. This race was a 5K on the streets pretty close to the ESI office, just by coincidence. Then it was back to Brian's apartment (where we also spent the night on an air mattress) to rest, watch some Olympics, and fuel up for the next race at 3:30pm in Downtown Jacksonville. The last race was a mile run under the blazing sun. Luckily, the weather had cooled down into the upper 80's/lower 90's because just earlier that week we had some of the hottest weather all summer at close to 100 degrees. Both guys did a great job overall and they can now say they have done the Tour de Pain!!