![]() He organizes monthly outings that have built a community – or as he calls it “a tribe” – of people who can lean on one another when dealing with the difficulties of military service. Those experiences have inspired him to support other local service members and veterans through his work at Heroes. He was the first Cape Codder to receive a service dog from HIT.Īlexander, a sergeant with the Barnstable Police Department, understands these sacrifices, having served in the Army and Army National Guard which included a deployment to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Iraq for Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm. A Marine, he was deployed to Iraq in 2009, the same year Nicole started training for her first marathon. Our service members, they don’t have the option to quit.”Īnd so, once again, Spencer will test herself physically and mentally because of the sacrifices that are being made by our military and that have been made by veterans like her brother Adam Babiarz. “In comparison to what our men and women of the Armed Forces have to go through, I can’t even imagine,” Spencer said. While not required, the two will each don a rucksack during the 4x4x48 as a reminder that there are those who served and are serving our country who endure far worse. For Nicole, this is becoming routine she did the challenge, created by Iraq War veteran and ultramarathon runner David Goggins last year, with a twist – she wore a rucksack while running through every town on Cape Cod. Starting tonight at 11 pm, the pair will embark on a run unlike any John has ever done before – running 4 miles every 4 hours over the course of 48 hours, all part of the Goggins Challenge. The duo have run each of the Ruck4HITs since it first started in 2016 – that version saw one team rucking from Ground Zero in New York City, over the Bourne Bridge, and ending in Falmouth – before it transitioned the next year to its current iteration, a 36-hour relay race with more than a dozen teams rucking on Cape Cod. She is the one who talked me into running a half marathon,” he said, in reference to HIT Executive Director Nicole Spencer. Heroes In Transition’s Veterans Coordinator John Alexander laughs, sharing how he first started to seriously get into running. This weekend, Nicole Spencer and John Alexander will run 4 miles every 4 hours for 48 hours.
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