Milwaukee runner takes on "Great World Race"

I have a feeling that our next guest might just say everything. Q Harrison Terry joining us now. You have to be carb loading like crazy right now because you're about to run seven marathons in seven days. Tell me more about this. And are you crazy? Crazy. Yes. Tell you more. We're not only doing it seven marathons in seven days, but we're doing it on all seven continents. It's a race known as the Great World Race. And I'm getting ready to embark on that. We've got about two days and like 15 hours until I start running. So today I had pasta and protein. That's really carbs and protein is really the name of the game. You know what I miss the most, though, is Culver's ice cream and Cops. I wish I could have, like, I'm going to have unlimited Cops and Culver's when I finish, but for sure, those are my two favorites. You have earned all of the Culver's and all of the Cops when you are finished with this task. Of course, you're from Milwaukee. We should also thank you. You're joining us right now from South Africa, because in just a couple of days, you're going to start this journey in Antarctica. How do you even prepare for a marathon in Antarctica? I mean, do you need a lot of layers? Well, growing up in Wisconsin, it helps like we understand the whole theory of base layers, right? So I have my base layers, and then I'm putting on the running kit on top of that. And then I'm going to be intermixing layers. So like, if it's, you know, wet and windy, you know, you've got a windbreaker layer, if it's like just the polar vortex, you know, you've got certain mittens and the hand warmers. So I think Wisconsin prepped me well on how to deal with the with the cold, the one thing I would say, I wouldn't be surprised if we've seen colder temperatures in Wisconsin. It's just more so that wind chill that I'm worried about. That's true. And then what's crazy to me is seven days later or six days later, you'll be running a marathon in Miami. Like, totally different environments. The only thing that stays the same is 26.2 miles. That is true. That is true. I mean, it's, it's psychologically, like if you tell your mind, you can do something and you train for it, then like you can make it happen. And I've put in this year alone, just in running more than 2,100 miles. So I'm, I'm, I feel prepared. I feel prepared. I feel prepared. I don't know how you can feel prepared, but I'm proud of you. I just feel like I, I, I've run a couple of half marathons and I don't think I could ever do a full. And then the idea of doing seven in seven days and also traveling that much, like this is going to be so fun to get to follow. So the trickiest, the trickiest part is like, if we were talking, you, if you've done a couple of half marathons, me in like March and April of this year. I hadn't done any half marathons. I'd never run a marathon or a half. And so to build up the volume was like tricky in itself. And I remember feeling exactly how you're feeling right now, where it's like you do a half and it's inconceivable to do a full 26.2. But it's like, seriously, if you just stick to the plan, you'll be quite impressed by the progress you'll make. Yeah. All right. QT's inspiring me. Maybe in the next year, I'll sign up for a full. Hey, if you sign up and you run, I'll run with you. Just, you gotta just give me a heads up. I'll come, I'll figure it out. You just tell me which run and I'll come do it. It's a plan. We're saying it here on air. So that means we have to do it. You went to Nicollet High School. You were on the cross country team then. Did you ever imagine when you were running in high school that you would do something like this one day? I think I had the talent, not this, that's clear. Like I obviously had the ability to run. And I didn't have the love. And I think that's just because I was a teenager with a lot of angst. And so coming back into it a year ago, I was hobby jogging. So I was just getting, you know, familiar. And then, you know, some of those aha moments and some of those moments when we're running up the hills at six in the morning and you dread it, but like your coach is telling you to push through, like all that stuff stuck with me. And so that was the cool thing about where we are today is like I had the ability and I put the early reps in where I had the mental fortitude to kind of see the training through. Yeah. Oh, absolutely. And we should mention you are taking on the Great World Race and you're doing it for an amazing cause. Tell me more about this. So I've partnered with the Veterans Empowerment Organization and another foundation known as Vision and Torch. They work with special forces and black ops. So we're partnered up across all six branches of the U.S. military, and we're going to be helping homeless veterans. And so there's a lot of vets that go out and protect our country and serve. And when they come home, they don't necessarily have a place to go or community that they can kind of plug into And see things. Back to like a normal life. And I think it's just wild that I'm going to be running around the world. And like, I do know where my home is. And, you know, I think every vet should have that opportunity. And so I started working with these groups. The numbers I think are, you know, actually attainable at any given point at its highest. It's roughly about 30,000 vets that don't have homes at a night. And so I think that 30,000, we could actually make a. Pretty large impact. It's not all going to happen all at once, but we've got the right people and we're talking to the right providers. And I think that will be something, at least in my lifetime, we should have this solved. Going from there, I'm excited to say that Acuity is now partnered up with us and they're going to be doing a big corporate push and I'll let them make some more announcements, but it's going to be cool to see the Acuity at the Wisconsin company partnering up and joining the cause. That's awesome. And I mean, yesterday was Veterans Day and we at Fox have the same similar passion for making sure that veterans who, you know, served their countries then come home and are treated with dignity and independence and are not on the streets, but are able to have homes of their own. And I love to see you're running for that. How can we follow along with you? You're about to do this journey. We got to know how it's going. So super simple, actually, you just go to qt.run forward slash live, and you have basically a live stream, you can track me kind of like your find your friends on your iPhone, you can see where I'm at on all the continents and what what's what the logistics are. And then also, all the stats and even some of the details about you know, the causes I'm supporting are all right there. And And again, that URL is just qt.run forward slash live. Awesome. Well, we will be keeping our eyes peeled to that website. We can't wait to cheer you on. I think it is so cool that you're taking on this challenge and also helping veterans while you're taking every step along this race. So QT, thank you so much for joining us here on Fox 6 Now and best of luck. Thank you. And don't forget about that marathon. That's how we're going to run it. Okay, I was hoping you forgot, but we are going to figure this out. We will start training and we will do that. Too fun to have QT here joining us on Fox 6 Now.