Some people lace up to go around the block or across a finish line. But one man is lacing up to go around the country..again. Meet Noah.
Noah Coughlan, 41, is an ultra runner, marathoner, and filmmaker from Vacaville, CA.
In 2002, at age 18, he graduated from Vacaville Christian High School, and was interested in joining the military after the 2001 attacks on America. However, his father David, suffered a catastrophic leg amputation, and Noah helped his father learn how to walk again and recover for many years.
In 2008, at age 24, Noah graduated from Napa Valley College Police Academy, and the economy suffered a severe financial downturn soon after in the Great Recession. Noah shifted focus into rare disease advocacy to help two childhood friends from his local church battling an ultra rare brain disease called Batten Disease.
In 2011, at age 27, Noah completed his first solo transcontinental Run across America, 2,500 miles from San Diego to Jacksonville, FL by raising awareness and trying to find solutions and a cure for Batten Disease. Since then he has taken the trip multiple times and it brings him to our neck of the woods.
Noa was into Jackson County and his send off from Black River Falls Friday morning. He should be arriving in Eau Caire on Friday evening.
Noah is traversing the country from Atlantic to Pacific by foot, and then from the Arctic Ocean back to the Pacific through Alaska and then finishing in Hawaii on July 4th. He started his journey in October and is completing his quest of running across all 50 states.
