How To Be Ordinary and Do Extraordinary Things

A 4-step guide for ordinary people like us

This may look like an ordinary autumn day in Montreal, but in fact it’s the start of an extraordinary 255km (158 mile) run over 5 days — more than five marathons and a whole lot of fun. That’s my friend Sarah biking with our gear. (Photo by me).

This is the story of how I ran more than five marathons in five days and hosted a dinner party at the finish — an extraordinary feat. I share it because it gave me so much joy (except for that dark moment on Day 3 past Dorval) and yet it was amazingly doable even for the likes of ordinary me.