Trevor Cowley – It’s not business, it’s personal.

By: Nicky Tamberrino, Host of Maybe Running Will Help Podcast

Okay. First of all, I liked Trevor before I ever met him.

I had done my research and it was clear that this man has a big heart. It was also apparent that he was a very successful business person, the kind that makes me super nervous because that is a world I thankfully don’t have to know anything about.

But no matter how intimidating someone might seem on paper, throw on a pair of running shoes and suddenly we’re all just runners trying to take another step towards ourselves. It’s beautiful and what makes me the luckiest through this podcast. Like I would never have met Trevor if it weren’t for running, and that would have been a shame because he’s very cool.

Trevor is currently attempting to break a world record by running a half-marathon every day. And the finish line keeps moving. When he started, the world record was 235 consecutive days. Then someone broke it and pushed it to 555. And then it moved again to 602 days. All while he was already running. So now he’s just…still going.

Man! I love nothing more than a finish line, so I can’t even with this drama! haha.

Trevor has days where his body hurts, and his mind tries to talk him out of it – just like the rest of us. The difference is that he made a decision about who he wants to be, and now he behaves like that person even when it’s inconvenient.

But Trevor didn’t start as a runner.

He describes his younger self as a “party boy,” and he’s open about the fact that he struggled with heroin addiction in his early years. Then he seemed to swing hard in the opposite direction. He built businesses. Made money. Became wildly successful by most standards.

And still felt empty.

So one day, sitting in a low place and needing to shake things up, Trevor asked himself a simple question: What do I hate doing?

Running. (which I find hilarious by the way! I mean, we all hate it and love it right?)

He had 39 days before his 37th birthday and decided to run a very casual 37 miles to “celebrate”. And afterward he swore he would never do anything like that again.

Obviously a lie we’ve all told ourselves, so it’s no surprise that now he is still running. It is a little crazy that he’s running a half marathon every single day in pursuit of a world record that refuses to sit still. But what we can probably relate to is that he isn’t really chasing a record, he’s chasing the version of himself capable of holding it.

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