Marathon Runners Are Training for a Hotter World
“It feels like it's getting cooler as you go, versus morning runs, where it just keeps getting hotter the longer you're out there.”QT · Dallas heat · BloombergRead →
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Press, races, films, conversations and milestones from QuHarrison Terry's road to the Great World Race and beyond.

Technologist turned endurance athlete

QuHarrison Terry is an American author and entrepreneur who has spent much of his career studying how technology changes culture. He is the bestselling co-author of The NFT Handbook and The Metaverse Handbook, a four-time LinkedIn Top Voice in Technology, and a former CNBC primetime co-host. He has spoken at CES and SXSW and guest-lectured at Harvard Business School.
After years immersed in that world, he began running as a deliberately physical practice, something that could not be optimized away, automated, or hacked. If he wanted to improve, he had to run the miles. Running became discipline, mental clarity, and direct evidence of effort.
In 2026 that pursuit escalated. He committed to the Great World Race: seven marathons, seven continents, one week. He is documenting the training now, using technology to track mileage, recovery, and performance, and testing how far sustained work can take him. The miles are being logged in public. Training happens in Dallas heat, on the road, and in the hours nobody sees. He is not waiting for November to become a runner. He already is one.
YOU CAN'T HACK THE MILES.
2026 · Great World Race · 1,632.4 training miles · 7 continents · 7 marathons
Running, racing and everything documented along the way.
2026
“It feels like it's getting cooler as you go, versus morning runs, where it just keeps getting hotter the longer you're out there.”QT · Dallas heat · BloombergRead →
Seven marathons. Seven continents. One week. The announcement of his entry into the Great World Race, and a documentary, Miles Tell the Truth, directed by Marcel Rodriguez.
Read →3rd Overall
13.1 MI · 1:29:24 · 1st M30-34
Official results →Tokyo's underground drift scene and the discipline it teaches: control comes before speed. The chapter that ends at the starting line.
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1st Overall
13.1 MI · 1:33:23 · 1st M30-34
Official results →The prequel to the running journal. Written, shot, and produced by QT in Bali, why a decade of talking about the future ended in discipline.
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