Hey, folks, welcome to the adventure sports podcast. I'm your host, Mason, and today is a very exciting episode. We're talking to Dr. Stan Fortuna Jr.

And Stan, Stan, the man, as I like to call him. He did not give me permission to use that name,

but I'm going to get it to him anyway because he is the man because what he did, he did the

Go Big 260. It's a circumnavigation of the big island of Hawaii.

It is 267 miles.

And he did it over 119 hours.

Here's the kicker at the age of 75.

And what's even cooler is this was his 116th ultramarathon or marathon.

He's done 116 races at least of a marathon distance or greater.

He's from Michigan.

He's joining us from Michigan.

But he spent years living and working as a principal over in Hawaii for his school district.

And so we're going to talk about that experience,

how that came to be, what this whole experience training for was like, what it was like to achieve it.

And it was just a heck of an interview, heck of a podcast episode and just its discussion.

And I really enjoyed it. I learned a lot from him. He has a really cool write-up that I'll try

to include in the show notes.

This was a really exciting interview. I love folks doing this at that age too because 75, that's a long way from where I am now.

But if I did this now, this would be one of the crowning achievements of my life. He did this as like a side mission just for fun after

115 other huge races he'd done. Unbelievable guy. But follow him. We're going to link everything

you need to go. He also is a big fan and supporter of the Hawaii Wildlife Fund, which we're also

linking to in the show notes. Stan, thanks so much for joining us and telling your story.

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