“He hates it,” says Aleeza Goggins, his wife. He had gone through two Hell Weeks-the Navy’s notorious SEAL initiation rite that weeds out 75 percent of its participants-completed Army Ranger School for kicks, done tours in Iraq and had become a power lifter in his spare time.īut in 2005, Goggins, who then sported a 6-foot-1-inch, 240-pound linebacker build, decided to do something that even his fellow SEALs thought was crazy-run the Badwater Ultramarathon, a grueling 135-mile trek through Death Valley to Mount Whitney Portal under the excoriating desert sun, with almost no training under his belt.Īnd Goggins hates running. On a (painful) mission to help the families of fallen Special Forces troopsĪs a Navy SEAL stationed in San Diego, David Goggins was used to tackling grueling tasks that most people would think were crazy. Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members!
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