FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – During his nine-year career as a professional soccer player, Wells Thompson was the kind of tireless midfielder that pundits and journalists would say “could run all day.”
So for 24 straight hours between May 15 and May 16, that’s exactly what he did.
Thompson, now 36 years old and living with his wife, Daphne, and their three young sons in Raleigh, N.C., began his journey at 4 p.m. on May 15 and didn’t stop running until a little after 4 p.m. on May 16, clocking 100 miles in the process and raising more than $16,000 for a nonprofit called Hydrating Humanity, which provides clean drinking water and hygiene education for the people of Kenya and Tanzania.