When you're bored and you want to feel productive, you might go for a run (and feel pretty good about your choice). Barclay Oudersluys was bored and decided to go for a run across the entire country. Dubbing his adventure Project Gump, the 23-year-old Michigan native is running from California to Maine partly for fun and partly to raise money for the Hall Steps Foundation, a nonprofit that strives to fight poverty around the world through better health. "What better way is there to promote healthy living than by running?" Barclay wrote on his Crowdrise fundraising page, where he has already raised over $3,500 of his $10,000 goal.
The real-life Forrest Gump told the Detroit Free Press that the spontaneous idea was sparked by an everyday run. "I was at the University of Michigan and I was on a run there one day, bored, and I tried to come up with something big to do and decided to run across the country," he said. "I'm out here just having fun." He started on May 9 and mapped out his entire route, and if all goes as planned, Barclay will run for 100 days, spanning over 3,000 miles.
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