Meet the Londoner taking part in a race between LA and Las Vegas that has no website, no rules, no official route, no spectators and, until a week before, no official start date.
"When the cops pull you over, be super nice," says Nils Arend.
It has no website, no "register here" button, no rules, no official route, no spectators and, until a week before, no official start date. "It's difficult to not sound holier than thou, preachy, or that everyone else who is doing their thing is wrong," says Poole who, in between wild camping in derelict buildings surrounded by used gun cartridges and fuelling himself entirely with food and drink from roadside gas stations, completed the 2023 race in just under 119 hours.
"So the next iteration of it all was for me to start to do my own things. We create a safe place for everybody to show up the way they are. No marathon can do that. They could. But they are not doing that. They are just running their own programme like it was 25 years ago."One is 'OK, I want to go there, perform and crush it' and the others are 'I am going to use TSP and its community to amplify my voice, my mission, the cause I am behind'.
Competitors are responsible for their own route, nutrition, hydration and finding their own places to restIt's less than two weeks after his return from Los Angeles, and Poole and I are on a 10k run along the Regent's Canal and his other regular running routes in east London. "If you're doing about 75 miles a day as I was, then you spend the whole day on the same road without a single turn.""Can you imagine how many times I'd get to 100 if I did that?" Poole laughs. "I think the important thing is to just be present. And that is what's going on, I think, with Paula's counting to 100, you are not thinking about the thing in the future.
"Last year, I remember seeing a car full of bullet holes, but it had a bench seat in the back. I was so tired, I really considered sleeping in there it but decided it was a stupid idea.At a glance, Arend's journey from organising underground raves in Hamburg to heading up an ultra-endurance race in Los Angeles might seem an unlikely one."It's the same, it's an endurance sport of folks, a lot of whom have parted ways with the nightlife," he says.
In fact, if rumours are to be believed, then going eight to 10 hours without food or water options will be a walk in the park compared with what he has planned.Poole lets slip in our conversation that Arend is thinking of attempting a Speed Project-style race in November in Chile.
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