As 48-year-old Christian Griffith ran through a relentless blizzard in Ohio, the sweltering heat of Iowa, and the perilous roads of California, he thought about why he was enduring all that when he could have been with his girlfriend and newborn baby at home in Jacksonville, Florida.
Almost every day for five months was gruelingly the same: get up, run, sleep, repeat. “The Groundhog Day effect,” Griffith said, referring to the popular Bill Murray movie.
