Dean Karnazes finishes running 50 marathons
Dean Karnazes has finished his Endurance 50 event by running his 50th marathon in New York City. Apparently he was only about 10 minutes behind me or so, but I did not wait around to talk to him again. He ran his final marathon in just over 3 hours.
When I was reading the race coverage in the New York Times, they listed a number of celebreties and notable people who had run the race. I was surprised not to find Dean’s name on the list. You can read about his final race and you can see some statistics about his run the day after.
What I find interesting is that he began to exhibit withdrawel symptoms from not running a morning marathon within a few hours of skipping his first run. He ran the original NYC course in Central Park the night after the race; I wonder if he means he did all 5 loops or if he just ran one or two of the loops? My guess is the latter.
I am looking forward to the documentary, and finding out what sort of crazy stunt he is going to run next. Maybe he will try doing 7 marathons on 7 continents in 7 days. I know that that one has been done before though; there were a few mountain climbers that did that 3 or 4 years ago if memory serves me.
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