Stu was intent on setting a world record for endurance running. He did it, too.

    Stu Mittleman ran 1,000 miles in eleven days and nineteen hours, an average of 84 miles a day.

    For eleven days, he ran 21 hours each day and slept 3 hours only. But Stu’s mental challenge was as great as the physical one. His mental challenge was to leave the everyday world he’d lived in his entire life to enter a world where nothing mattered except the next step. He wanted to demonstrate the unlimited physical potential of the human body. And he spent years training his body and his mind to accomplish this.

    Stu Mittleman showed us that by conditioning our mind and body, we can accomplish things far beyond what society would consider possible. He proved that the human capacity is incredible, and that we can adapt to anything if we make the right demands on ourselves. Stu’s trick was to do this incrementally - little bit, by little bit.