Tom Jones had been called a lot of things in his life, but this one took the cake. “Bumblebee.” Jones, 37 years old at the time, was about to embark on an extreme athletic endurance feat—run the length of a marathon (26.2 miles) every day for 120 consecutive days, starting in Huntington Beach and arriving in New York City. And on Day 121, Jones would run in the New York City Marathon. Impossible, right? The company that was sponsoring Jones’ trek—paying for the support staff that would feed him, apply physical therapy and provide the motor home in which he would sleep every night—was starting to get cold feet. What if he didn’t make it? “They put up close to $250,000,” said Jones, now 58. “They hired an attorney that convinced them that there was an issue, that if I couldn’t make it, it would destroy their brand.” So the …