David Goggins has once again tested the limits of endurance, and passed. The 50-year-old ultrarunner, author, and former Navy SEAL finished the 2025 Moab 240 Endurance Run early Monday morning in around 3 days and 13 hours, placing 22nd overall after 240 miles through Utah’s desert canyons and mountains.
It’s his second 200-plus-mile race in just two months, coming on the heels of his finish at the Bigfoot 200 in Washington in August. For most runners, a single multi-day ultra would be enough for a season, if not a lifetime. For Goggins, it’s just another test.
“Congrats to @davidgoggins on his Moab 240 finish! Just two months after he completed the Bigfoot 200, he took on another challenge and crushed it. Stay hard!” wrote race organizers Destination Trail on Instagram.
A Measured Push Through the Desert
Goggins’ GPS tracker shows an athlete who knows how to suffer strategically. He averaged 2.8 mph across the entire route, moving for 2 days, 10 hours, and 59 minutes and stopping for roughly a full day, a typical rhythm for the 240’s grueling format.
His moving average speed of 4.0 mph suggests a steady, controlled effort, especially impressive given nearly 25,000 feet of elevation gain and wide temperature swings between the La Sal Mountains and the desert floor.
The final hours told their own story. Between midnight and his finish at 1:00 a.m. MDT, Goggins was still covering ground at over 2 mph, closing the race in motion rather than in survival shuffle.
The pace charts from his tracker showed bursts of 5 to 6 mph early on, a long slowdown across the middle 100 miles, then a sharp rebound heading back toward Moab, the hallmark of a veteran ultrarunner who knows how to pace for days, not hours.
Holding Strong Against a Deep Field
Throughout the weekend, the ultrarunning community followed his progress on Reddit, with live updates marking him inside the top ten through much of the race. “He’s currently in 5th place as of 7 AM CST Sunday, on that bad knee. Inspiring,” one user wrote. Another added, “His current position is insane for his stats.”
Others joked in the only way Goggins fans can: “Goggins doesn’t bonk.” One commenter shot back, “David bonks. Goggins bonks David, buries him, and keeps on carrying on.”
By the end, he had slipped to 22nd overall but still finished among the top 10% of the field, an exceptional result given the depth of runners like Harvey Lewis, Andy Glaze, and Michael McKnight. For context, Goggins is larger and more muscular than the typical ultrarunner, reportedly around 182 pounds, which makes maintaining efficiency over such distances even more remarkable.
The Goggins Ethos, Unchanged
The Moab 240 is less a race than a mental crucible, four days of heat, cold, sleep deprivation, and isolation. Goggins’ finish continues the same story he’s told for years, that resilience isn’t a burst of effort but a refusal to stop.
“Miles don’t care about how you feel. Goggins just keeps pushing,” one Reddit user wrote. That sentiment sums up why his results continue to resonate beyond running circles.
He’s now finished two of the Destination Trail Triple Crown of 200s this year, Bigfoot and Moab, a rare feat that places him among the toughest endurance athletes in the sport. At 50, he’s still outlasting younger competitors, still training like a man with something to prove, and still finding new ways to test how far the human body can go when the mind refuses to quit.
Stay hard.
