{"id":3899,"date":"2010-07-19T12:56:37","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T17:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=3899"},"modified":"2010-07-19T12:56:37","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T17:56:37","slug":"alum-braves-135-mile-desert-ultramarathon-for-the-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2010\/07\/alum-braves-135-mile-desert-ultramarathon-for-the-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Alum braves 135-mile desert ultramarathon \u2018for the kids\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Scott<\/p>\n

Just thinking about running a marathon is enough to tire me out, so the idea of a footrace that covers 135 miles non-stop across California from Death Valley to Mt. Whitney<\/a> — in July, no less, when temperatures can reach 130 degrees — just blows me away.<\/p>\n

But that’s exactly what Dr. Scott Finnell<\/a>, BA ’78, MA ’83, was up to last week. A veteran of more than 60 marathons and ultramarathons, Finnell was one of just 90 entrants selected to compete in this year’s Badwater Ultramarathon<\/a>. The 54-year-old CEO finished 44th overall<\/a>, covering the 135 miles in 40 hours, 55 minutes and 30 seconds.<\/p>\n

Finnell says he began running to lose weight as a graduate student at Baylor, and has since continued just for the exercise. Last week’s race, however, was for the children of Pressley Ridge<\/a>, a nonprofit that provides foster care, residential and educational services for children across seven states (plus the District of Columbia) and three countries. Finnell has served as CEO of the Pittsburgh-based organization<\/a> since 2002 (after beginning his career at the Waco Center for Youth) and collected donations for Pressley Ridge for each mile he completed.<\/p>\n

Sic \u2019em, Dr. Finnell!<\/p>\n

[We learned of Scott’s run from a Bear who shared his Baylor pride. Do you know of an inspiring story, news item, or just a fun link that makes you proud of Baylor and the Baylor family? Let us know! Click here to submit your point of pride!<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just thinking about running a marathon is enough to tire me out, so the idea of a footrace that covers 135 miles non-stop across California from Death Valley to Mt. Whitney — in July, no less, when temperatures can reach 130 degrees — just blows me away. But that’s exactly what Dr. Scott Finnell, BA […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-extraordinary-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}