About Me:

I’m nobody special.  Let’s be perfectly clear…I don’t like to run. I don’t like to swim. I don’t like to bike. I do this to raise money for the children of soldiers killed in combat.  
 
I joined the military over 13 years ago to push my limits. When I first joined, I couldn’t run down to the mailbox. I weighed 290lbs.  The guy at the recruiting office looked at me like I didn’t have a chance.  He was very wrong. I became a Navy Seal.

Well, after 9/11 hit, I lost some buddies in a mission that went bad in Afghanistan. I vowed to do something for the children of those fallen soldiers. I started looking into ways to raise money for them.  I really didn’t think selling lemonade on the street corner would work, so I went online and Googled the 10 hardest things to do in the world.
 
That led me to enter the worlds toughest endurance races – I figured if I experienced some serious physical pain it would inspire people to get interested and donate some money. Someone told me about this ultra marathon race in Death Valley called “Badwater” (a 135 mile race in 120 degree heat). I didn’t even know what an ultra marathon was. So, I called up the race director of Badwater to see if he let me in. He asked me how many 100 mile runs I had done. I said, “None”. Then he asked how many marathons I had done.  “None”, I said.  He said I had to have at least one ultra marathon under my belt before he could consider letting me in. Long story short, I got that ultra marathon under my belt and haven’t stopped running since.
 
I know what it’s like to run 203 miles with busted-up feet. I know what it’s like to be alone three miles out in the freezing ocean in the middle of the night.  I know what it’s like to bike 500 miles non-stop.  I’m not scared of extreme pain.  I’m nobody special, but I refuse to say the words: “I can’t”.
 
With the Special Ops Warrior Foundation's help, we put 266 kids through college last year. And that's what keeps me going. Like I said, I don't like running. I don't like biking. I don’t like swimming. I do it to raise money. But, now that I'm in this sport I want to see how far I can push myself. What makes me tick is that pain you feel when you do these ultramarathons. I can take a lot of pain.
 
Show no weakness,
Goggins