Six Hours. 60 Miles. | NSP® at Painkllr® DURUS ATX 10/10/26

At 6:00 AM on October 10th, 2026, the clock started.

Six hours later, we had covered 60.03 miles, finished first overall, and put more than two miles between us and the next team.

But the result only tells part of the story.

Showing Up to Compete

Our team for Painkllr® DURUS consisted of four runners: Cody Huntington, Dane Shaw, Allison Holland, and Jordan Niederhaus.

There was no shortage of endurance experience between our team. Dane is a seasoned ultrarunner with 100-mile races under his belt, while Allison and Jordan have both taken on numerous endurance events, including 50-mile ultras. Cody rounded out the team with experience across endurance and speed, from HYROX to marathon.

As a brand, we talk a lot about putting in the work, pushing beyond what you thought you were capable of, and showing up when things get difficult. And DURUS was an opportunity to walk the talk.

So we showed up with one objective: give everything we had and compete for the win.

Six Hours All-Out

Race morning started long before sunrise.

With a 6:00 AM start, most of us were awake around 3:00 AM to make the trip, set up our base camp, fuel, and get in a proper warmup before the first lap.

Dane got us started with two consecutive laps before we settled into our rotation, with each runner completing a lap before handing it off to the next.

From there, it became a six-hour cycle of running as fast as we could maintain: Run. Recover. Fuel. Get ready. Go again.

The cool early-morning temperatures didn't last long. As the sun came up, so did the heat and humidity, eventually turning into a hot Texas morning by the final hours of the race.

But the energy never disappeared.

Eleven other teams lined up alongside us, ranging from mixed teams to all-male and all-female squads. Everyone came ready to work, and the atmosphere throughout the morning was competitive without losing the sense of community that makes endurance events like this special.

60.03 Miles Later

As the hours passed and fatigue started accumulating, our team dynamic became one of our biggest advantages.

We fed off each other's energy. Every runner coming back in meant someone else was getting ready to go out. There was constant encouragement, plenty of laughs, and a shared understanding that when it was your turn, you emptied the tank.

Behind us was an equally important crew making sure we could keep doing exactly that: helping us stay fueled, hydrated, rested, and ready to give another all-out effort when our rotation came back around.

By noon, we'd covered 60.03 miles in six hours.

Enough to finish first overall out of 12 teams and more than two miles ahead of the next closest team.

There wasn't a podium waiting for us at the finish.

But we didn't need one.

Finding a New Limit

We went into DURUS wanting to win, and we're proud that we did.

But somewhere between the first lap in the dark and the final efforts under the midday sun, the day became about more than where we finished.

Four friends pushed each other further and faster than we thought we could go. We learned something new about ourselves, found new limits, and walked away closer because of it.

That's what competition can do when you approach it the right way.

Winning was the mission. Giving our best effort (as individuals and as a team) was the purpose.

Events like DURUS also don't happen without a community behind them. From the other teams bringing the energy all morning to brands and vendors like BPN and C4 keeping athletes fueled and ready to go, there was support everywhere you looked.

We came to make our presence known.

We came to compete.

And when the clock stopped six hours later, we knew we'd given everything we had.

60.03 miles. Four runners. First overall.

Until the next one.

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Special thanks to Diego Maldonado for capturing our team at the first-ever DURUS!

For more pictures of this race - and more details of Painkllr® events - please visit the official Painkllr® site here.