Another year, another 48 in 48. You can do it too. You just have to get out and go for it. The voice in your head doesn’t like discomfort so it lies and chooses laziness. But you are better than that. You can do anything if you put your heart, energy, and soul into it. Get !t.

In edition #130, journey into another 4×4 for 48.

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Which 1% change feels most realistic this week?

⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 🧠 Mind
⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 💪 Body
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🍽️ Nutrition
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🧍🏾‍♂️Training

Simple structure. Serious test.

Run 4 miles (6.4 km) every 4 hours for 48 hours.
12 runs. 48 miles (77 km) total.

💤 Sleep when you can.
🍽️ Eat when you can.
❤️‍🩹 Recover fast.
⏱️Repeat.

The format was popularized by David Goggins — not as a race, but as a confrontation. Not with others. With yourself.

Because it forces you to grow.

In two days you learn:

It builds aerobic capacity.
It sharpens metabolic efficiency.
It forces recovery awareness.
It reveals weak links — sleep, nutrition, mobility, pacing, mindset.

And it builds something harder to quantify:

Quiet Confidence. 🔥

That’s it.

You can scale it:

The framework is what transforms you.

Each season carries its own identity:

Different climates.
Different life seasons.
Different versions of me.

Same core question every year: What happens when I keep going!?

This year wasn’t optimized.

No major prep. ❌
Minimal running the week before. 🗓️
No push-up or dip add-ons.
Start times were flexible — estimated, not rigid like earlier seasons. ⏱️

This one was about adaptation.

Get up.
Go. 🚥
Adjust.

Weather hovered around 0°C (32°F). ❄️
Some rain. Some windchill. Light snow. Classic Montreal unpredictability.

I didn’t fast.
I ate that morning.
No meal prep — just what was available.

No performance theatre. Just execution. 🏃

I started with a left knee ligament sprain.

By Run 2️⃣, my left knee was swollen.

Every round began cautiously.
Testing. Negotiating. 🚧

But once flow kicked in — it smoothed out.

Ice. 🥶
Massage gun.
Cold/hot gel. 🔥
Reset. 🌀

Total sleep across 48 hours: roughly 7 hours, including two early blocks from 4:30 am to around 8:00 am.

Not ideal.
Not glamorous.
Just reality.

Longest single run of the challenge:

9 miles (14 km)

Back-to-back longer efforts.

For perspective:

On a swollen knee. 😁

That wasn’t planned.
It emerged.

🔥 Initiation beats motivation.
You don’t wait to feel ready.

🔥 Adaptation beats perfection.
Rigid plans break. Flexible discipline survives.

🔥 The first 10 minutes lie to you.
After that, your body often cooperates.

🔥 You are more durable than you think.

Comfort hides capacity⛰️

And somewhere around hour 36 — when it’s cold, quiet, dark and you’re tired — you meet a version of yourself you didn’t know existed.

Not necessarily 48 in 48. But something structured. Voluntary. Slightly uncomfortable.

You never know what you’re made of…

Until you try. 💭

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Until Next Edition,

Coach DC
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