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His last will be Veterans Day in Washington, D.C. He won\u2019t compete in any organized marathons, but he\u2019s has mapped out courses in each city, encouraging friends and supporters to run with him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>\u2018My job was to find IEDs\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A farm boy who ended up in college at Virginia Tech, Jones joined the Marine Corps Reserve in Roanoke, Virginia, during his junior year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He served as a combat engineer attached to an infantry unit. After a \u00addeployment to Iraq in 2008, Jones was sent to Sangin, Afghanistan, in 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-smg-jwplayer-video\"><atype-video-jwplayer nostick=\"true\" playlisturl=\"https:\/\/cdn.jwplayer.com\/v2\/playlists\/fCzRqMW8?tags=a790f2f5-a748-4787-a4e3-90f039293d2d\" aspectratio=\"16 \/ 9\" mute autostart=\"false\"><\/atype-video-jwplayer><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Defense News TV profiles Marine Corps veteran Rob Jones, who won a bronze medal in the Paralympics, biked across the country and now is training to run 31 marathons in 31 days.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMy job was to find IEDs, and we were doing a push into Taliban territory, and so we had laid down for a little break and we got up and the point man stepped on an IED,\u201d Jones said in an interview during a June training session. \u201cLuckily for him, it was what we call a low-order detonation \u2014 it malfunctioned, so just the blasting cap went off.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the Taliban had set another IED close to the first, designed to hit those responding to the initial blast. 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Now, he is in the middle of running a marathon every day for a month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There\u2019s always a temptation to take the easy route, Jones said, but that\u2019s not what he is about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf you get into the habit of always selecting the easy way to do things, then that will compound, I think,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, taking the elevator \u00adinstead of the stairs, Jones said, or \u00adletting the fear of failure prevent you from even trying in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou have to seek out the hard things, and purposefully doing the hard thing to make sure that you keep growing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jones will post updates on his \u00admarathon trek at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/robjonesjourney\">facebook.com\/\u00adrobjonesjourney<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>Andrea Scott is managing editor of Marine Corps Times. 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