PAWS Workshop "Life Launch" Rob DeCou: Endurance
- What
- PAWS Workshop "Life Launch" Rob DeCou: Endurance
- When
- 2/3/2021, 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM
Rob is highly involved in ultra-endurance sports and uses this passion to raise awareness and build community around important issues. In 2017, Rob completed a 146-mile run across Death Valley to the top of Mt. Whitney known as “the World’s Toughest Foot Race”, raising $700,000 for End Polio Now, Rotary’s global campaign to eradicate polio. The prior year, Rob completed the solo Race Across America, known as “the World’s Toughest Bicycle Race”, a 3,000-mile journey from coast to coast raising over $20,000 to fund brain cancer research. Rob recently completed a 31-mile swim from Port Angeles, Washington to Victoria, Canada across the Strait of Juan de Fuca raising over $10,000 to fight human trafficking.
On July 17, 2020, Rob completed the 625-mile Race Across Oregon raising over $6,250 of funds for IN OUR BACKYARD and bring awareness to human trafficking. For the ultimate challenge of his endurance career, Rob completed Uberman, “the World’s Toughest Ultra-Triathlon”, in October 2020 to raise even more funds and awareness to fight human trafficking.