When he was in the U.S. Navy, Tuckerton resident Stanley Jackson was a member of a special operations dive team in which training consisted of grueling sessions that tested his endurance to the max. A former fishing boat captain from Barnegat Light, the 38-year-old Jackson then became interested in long-distance running, which can also test one’s stamina.
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He started out with marathons, which are 26.2-mile events, and then moved onto higher levels as an ultra-marathoner. What he plans to do on Friday, Oct. 9 will make marathons seem like a walk in the park.
His feet will be traversing 200 miles, from the northernmost part of New Jersey at High Point in Sussex County to Cape…
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