The drama revolved around Goggins going way off course, seeking medical attention for pulmonary edema, and then when it was decided that he could not re-enter the race, he ran a total of 250 miles on his own to finish his own version of the race. I remember much of the story as it was happening last year but the details never completely emerged so I don’t feel comfortable saying exactly what happened. Goggins ran the Moab 240 in 2019 and was credited with a DNF at around 200 miles. That said, race director Candice Burt reported a high DNF rate early on in the race because of the extreme heat, so perhaps Mickey’s time is even more impressive than it appears.ĭavid Goggins Backed It Up at the 2020 Moab 240! Mickey didn’t relent, finishing with an incredible time of 61h 43m 15s, which puts him in 4th place on the all-time performance list behind Courtney Dauwalter, Mike McKnight, and Piotr Hercog. There were times throughout where it looked like Goggins might catch him, but they really just yo-yoed between about 8-20 miles apart throughout the second half of the race. There was one point around mile 60 where David Goggins overtook him, but in the middle of night one, Mickey regained the lead and never let it go. On October 9th at 7am, Mickey took the race out hard, gaining an early lead, and pretty much held on to it for the entire 240 miles.
In 2018 Mickey won Badwater, which really shifted his public persona from a good ultra runner with an interesting background and no fear, to a real competitor that is always going to be in the hunt for the win. So it was no surprise to see his name on the starting list of Moab 240. In 2016, he ran the Yukon Arctic Ultra 100 miler in temperatures dipping to negative 40 degrees, and then just six months later, he ran Badwater, with temperatures soaring to 130 degrees. Mickey specializes not in traditional mountain hundred milers, but the most extreme forms of this sport, way out on the fringes.
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