With a map in hand and an app on his phone, Jarad Schofer is taking the concept of a jog through the city to a whole new level: He plans to run every road and alley in the District.
“You know I’ve lived here a long time and I kind of thought I’d run everywhere and now I can see that’s really nowhere near the case,” he said.
He’s a teacher with a doctorate in mathematics and only recently got into running. He started with 5Ks, then moved to 10K races.
Now with a few big races under his belt, Schofer has knocked out 860 miles on his mission to tackle the streets of D.C. In all, he intends to run around 2,500 miles.
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His plan is to be done by June and then head to Tennessee to run in the Vol State Ultramarathon race in July.
“The best way to train for it, I think is to do a lot of road running.”
He said the biggest challenge has been overlapping certain streets but according to his calculations, it’s impossible to avoid.
Schofer said this extreme mission is a testament to just how capable we are of accomplishing so much.
“I’m not losing steam,” he said.