Henry Ward - Long Run 169

**Scotty** (0:01)
All right, this is gonna be a long run episode of me and Henry Ward. Henry is a really cool guy. He just finished the Coca-Dona 250 in 111 hours and 46 minutes, which, phew, it's a long time.
And he wrote a book, this is how I found out about him, called Running Without the Devil, How an Alcoholic and Addict Used Running to Battle His Addiction, and How You Can Too, which I just finished reading. And then I said to him, dude, I read your book, you should come on the show.
And of course, he said yes. And it just turned out that, you know, it was right after he finished the Coca-Dona 202
This episode is brought to you by our friends at UCAN. Now it's summertime, so now I've been running more in the morning, and I usually don't eat, I just drink some coffee before. But I always bring with me one, I call it my emergency gel. I almost never have to use it. But I've been bringing the UCAN Edge because that's now my gel of choice.
We use a lot of these UCAN products at the Badger races. I use them daily. There's a hydrate, which is a zero calorie electrolyte drink. They also have bars, energy bars, which are great. I love the chocolate almond ones, and there's also a peanut butter, a salted peanut butter one. They also have an energy drink, which is like a super starch, really, really cool. You can make a shake with it. I use a little almond milk and ice to make like a creamy shake.
Very delicious. They have a granola. They have an almond butter. Anyway, all their products have this super starch in them. They're high energy, low carb, slow burn, not super crazy sweet, but they're delicious. It's my number one thing that I use in terms of fueling myself on runs. I use these, the energy bars, I swear to you, all day, I just eat these energy bars and drink the hydrate. This isn't just something that I use when I'm running. It's like just, you know, my snacks are always UCAN and my fuel on my run is predominantly UCAN. So check it out. Go to ucan.co. I'll put a link in the show notes and you can use the discount code, which is Ten Junk Miles to get 20% off. I recommend, you know, if you want to get like a dip your toe in it, try these bars, try the hydrate and try the UCAN Edge. Try the gels. They're especially good because they're not overwhelming. And I don't find myself, you know, taking these gels and going, it's just like sugar in my mouth. They're all tasty. So give it a try. And there you go.
Not much more to say other than that. Here's me and Henry Ward.
You want a whole bunch of ads first, but maybe next time. I'll put them in the middle just to make up for it.
At the tone, please record your message.

**Henry Ward** (3:39)
When you...

**Scotty** (3:39)
Well, that's for sure not him. At the tone, please record your message.

**Henry Ward** (4:22)
When you...

**Scotty** (4:25)
Two times.

**Henry Ward** (4:36)
What's up, Scott?

**Scotty** (4:37)
That Cocodona 250 really screwed you up, man. You gave me the wrong number.

**Henry Ward** (4:42)
It's very possible.

**Scotty** (4:44)
It's not the first time that's ever happened either.

**Henry Ward** (4:46)
Sorry about that.

**Scotty** (4:48)
No worries at all. What's going on?

**Henry Ward** (4:51)
Not too much, not too much. Just did the family thing, got some relaxin done today, get off my tired feet, which was cool.

**Scotty** (4:58)
Are you recovered?

**Henry Ward** (5:03)
Yeah, I would say yeah. I had a run today and I had tired legs and stuff, but I think I've gotten caught up in sleep and got rid of that fog that I had. I probably slept like 10 hours last week, so it took a few naps and a few days to really feel somewhat normal, but I'd say I'm maybe like 90% recovered.

**Scotty** (5:25)
Other than what's in your book, I don't know much else about you and I'm assuming that was a lot more than you had ever done in terms of amount of time that you were involved in an event.

**Henry Ward** (5:39)
Yeah, I did. I did the Dayton Sidewalk, 66.6 hour treadmill event, but I slept in the night, so continuously. Yeah, by far the most they had done before was a little over 100 miles, and it was just because I got lost.

**Scotty** (5:54)
Was that sidewalk thing in the book?