450-Mile Marathon? Ultra-Runner Fumich Does it For Boston

Ultra-runner Frank Fumich, of Arlington, VA, and his friend Matt Nelson of Lake Worth, FL, are running to the finish line of the Boston Marathon—about 450 miles—to raise money for bombing victims.

Fumich left the Pentagon’s 9/11 Memorial and started running toward Boston Tuesday morning.

With a goal of raising $100,000, they have already raised more than $55,000 online.

To donate and learn more, go to their website at standunitedrununited.org.

The money they raise will go to the family of Martin Richard, an 8-year-old boy who was killed in the marathon bombings, and to Jeffrey Bauman, who lost both legs in the bombing and was integral in identifying the Boston marathon bombing suspects.

You can follow Fumich’s progress on Twitter through @endurancetrust on Twitter and by using the Twitter hashtag #dc2bos.

A description of the full route is also available—the duo plans to run through Washington, DC; Baltimore; Philadelphia; Wilmington, DE; Princeton, NJ; Newark; New York City (through Ground Zero); Hopkinton, MA; and Boston.

Follow Fumich and Nelson via GPS here.

Fumich and Nelson will have a “chase” vehicle with them for medical support, food and shelter.

In late April, Fumich ran the equivalent of three consecutive marathons in Northern Virginia to raise money for the Richard’s family and Bauman.

“I’ve run tons of races,” Fumich told The Washington Post, “and I know how easily it could have been my family standing at the finish line. When I heard about the little boy being killed and his family being injured, it blew me away. I’m a runner, we run for causes, and that’s why I’m doing it.”

Fumich runs a couple of marathons every month and has competed in the Virginia Triple Iron Triathlon, according to a Washington Post profile.