What a Great Example of Veria

"I was interested in what motivated him to do this. And he said that he just wanted to face his mind in extreme circumstances," says CNN's John Sutter. At mile 13 or so, full pack, 35 pounds, big boots, kind of the whole thing: "He started to have some doubts." The last few miles of the course, it was even running in sand; somehow he finished. He volunteered to do the same thing the following year.