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Eddie Iz Running

ColdChef — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:40:33 -0800

Eddie Izzard is one of The UK’s most beloved comedians. He is not, however known for his athletic prowess. But that's all about to change, because Eddie’s just completed a run - a very, very, VERY long run. 43 Marathons in 51 days for charity. The secret does not lie in strict training. Where athletes devote a life to running and amateurs clear the diary for months before a race, Izzard admits to only five weeks of prep. He has run at least 27 miles a day, six days a week, over the past seven weeks, covering more than 1,110 miles of England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland.

Team Hoyt on the Today Show

allkindsoftime — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 06:23:12 -0800

Team Hoyt: The story of Dick and Rick Hoyt (Today Show SLYT) (prev)

Horror for the casual insomniac

[NOT HERMITOSIS-IST] — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:26:36 -0800

Doomed Moviethon exists as an excuse for Richard Schmidt to go on insane, caffeine-fueled horror movie benders and record his impressions as sanity erodes... Could you do 28 Giallos in 60 hours? Also: 12 Werewolf flicks in 30 hours 13 Argentos in 34 hours 13 films from '76 in 42 hours

Marathon a day for 100 days

joelf — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:47:03 -0800

Running a marathon a day for the next 100 days, across Africa. Two students, Erin and Ruben, from the University of Victoria will be running 26 miles a day to raise money for Athletes for Africa in Namibia, Zambia and Tanzania and "to demonstrate that Africa too is a place where real people live real lives, and where, if you want to go for a 4,200km jog, you are more than welcomed to."

it is important that you wear underpants

madamjujujive — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:40:29 -0800

Six Masai warriors will face cultural challenges when they run in the Flora London Marathon to raise money for clean water for their village. Meet the runners (video clip) Think about making a small donation in their time of trouble because when we had problems here in the US, they were most generous to us. Masai are joyous dancers and singers, 3, 4 Masia bride Masai portraits Maasi pool

Ted Corbitt, "the father of American distance running," dies.

OmieWise — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:37:46 -0800

"In 1968, I received an invitation to the hundred-mile run at Walton-on-Thames, England, scheduled for October 1969. I pulled out all the stops for this one, running every marathon possible and enduring unheard-of training mileage when not racing. In July alone I ran a thousand miles, two hundred short of my goal[...]My only goal was to break the existing American record of 16:07:43." (Which he did, finishing in 13:33; still the U.S. 45 to 49 100-mile record.) Ted Corbitt, Olympian, American Record holder at 100 miles, died yesterday. NYT obit. From an interview in UltraRunning Magazine:

UR: Were you working full-time when you were putting in high mileage? TC: Yes, 40 hours a week. [Ted has been a physical therapist from 1948 to the present.] The only time I took off from work was to go to the Boston Marathon. Otherwise I just took my regular vacation time for trips and races. Some Boston Marathons were on Saturdays, which was not a day off in New York. So I would have to take the day off to run it.

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Terminal Verbosity — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 12:13:48 -0800

Believe it or not, there was a record for running the fastest 50 mile ultra marathon while juggling. And this guy just beat it. I present to you: joggling. Guess what else: joggling almost sounds like blogging. You'd think online folks would discuss this on a joggling board, but it seems like most of them are doing it here.

New Marathon WR

OmieWise — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 11:36:20 -0800

2:04:26 Sunday 1 Oct. Haile Gebrselassie set a new World Record (by 29 seconds!) when he won the Berlin Marathon. He's held the WR at 2k and 3k (indoor), 5k (several times) (1998 part 1, 2) , 10k (several times), 10mile, 1/2 marathon, one hour (also) and 25k. Bonus: Alan Webb bests the American Record for the Mile this summer: 3:46.91

Marathon - Halo's predecessor

Down10 — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:50:41 -0800

Halo 3? Phooey! Sure, Bungie's latest title in greatest series for the Xbox is released tomorrow, but for some perspective, take a look at Marathon: Aleph One — the free, open source engine to Bungie's first achievement, the Marathon Trilogy. Once a Mac-only title, Marathon's source code was released to the public by Bungie in 2000 (shortly before joining the Microsoft empire). The Aleph One project has expanded vastly since then, and is now available for Windows, Mac, Linux & more, has multi-player support over LAN and IP, and comes with plenty of downloadable additions, including the first three Marathon games (1, 2, and Infinity) and dozens of user-created maps, graphics, tools and scenarios. And if you wish, you can still download the original Mac games and map editors for free.

The 1904 Olympics: Best Forgotten

Falconetti — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 19:04:43 -0800

The 1904 Olympics were held in St. Louis, Missouri and were an utter disaster, but it was "great fun for savages."

2007 Bang on a Can Marathon

allterrainbrain — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 03:49:55 -0800

The Bang on a Can Marathon is currently in progress at the World Financial Center in Manhattan. This annual Marathon has taken various forms over the years, with a range of lengths, locations and admission prices; this year's features 26 straight hours of music from around the world, with free admission. Bang on a Can is the 20-year-old new music presenting, producing and recording group co-founded by composers Julia Wolfe, David Lang and Michael Gordon.

He weighs as much as the top three females--combined

Kibbutz — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 15:26:15 -0800

Any MeFis running Boston a week from tomorrow? Good luck! And I hope you at least beat this guy (who I'm sure will become another paragraph in the race's colorful history).

If you'll show me yours.

escabeche — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 09:27:09 -0800

Nude Marathon! Psychotherapy traveled down a lot of strange paths in the 60s and early 70s, but perhaps none stranger than the naked group therapy sessions, some up to 48 hours long, supervised by Paul Bindrim. Bindrim's sessions were the subject of a documentary film and an unflattering, thinly fictionalized novel by Gwen Davis Mitchell. Bindrim sued Mitchell for libel. Can descriptions of a fictional character be libelous of a real person? Yes.

Photoshop Artist Craig Mullins

jonson — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 10:30:42 -0800

Craig Mullins is a commercial photoshop artist & videogame fan. In the mid 90s, after a couple amateur pieces of fan art he created for the game Marathon made their way to the folks at Bungie, he was hired to create a series of Halo themed art for the company. His full portfolio of commercial & personal work is interesting.

Marathon bowling, dude

tizzie — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 05:38:10 -0800

"He was delirious; he was talking to the ball return" Others have tried, but failed. This guy did it for charity. Sounds grueling - very un-Dude.

Marathon of Hope

arse_hat — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 23:14:31 -0800

"His life was just beginning, and he was simply a slightly nerdy, nondescript youngster sitting at a desk in Grade 8, so short his feet didn't reach the floor." but Terry Fox would go on to grab the heart of Canadians and 25 years on, the world. Also seen before.

72 Hour Comic Madness

fizz-ed — Sat, 01 Jan 2005 01:59:18 -0800

72 page comic in 72 hours. Ryan Estrada has decided that for New Year's he is going to spend 72 hours creating a 72 page comic book. His site is complete with hourly updates of page count and his sanity level. And I thought the 24 Hour Comic was tough.

The priest who disrupted the Olympic marathon

mcwetboy — Mon, 30 Aug 2004 07:00:41 -0800

Father Cornelius (Neil) Horan doesn't just spread his end-of-the-world message by running onto the track during Formula One races and accosting hapless Brazilian marathoners (more here, here and here) -- he writes books, too, excerpts of which you can download for your edification and salvation. From what he says, better hurry. (Via Colby Cosh)

Somewhere Smarty Jones Is Crying

Frank Grimes — Sun, 13 Jun 2004 10:41:05 -0800

Man Beats Horse, wins 25,000 pounds. For the first time, two legs triumphed over four in the annual Man Versus Horse Marathon in Wales.

7x7x7

Vidiot — Sun, 02 Nov 2003 13:44:45 -0800

British explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes and Dr. Michael Stroud just completed an extraordinary feat: they're running seven marathons. On seven continents. In seven days. It's all to benefit the British Heart Foundation, and it wound up today with the New York Marathon.

24 Hours of Moab

mr_crash_davis — Sun, 19 Oct 2003 16:19:17 -0800

"As team names went, Victory 2 Vagina was almost run-of-the-mill. There were also the Blazing Saddle Sores, the Weapons of Ass Destruction, and Nocturnal Mission". Welcome to the 24 Hours of Moab, which some consider the country's toughest 24-hour mountain bike race.

Marathon Monks

homunculus — Sat, 20 Sep 2003 13:24:58 -0800

A 44-year-old Buddhist priest completed a seven-year, 24,800-mile running ritual on Thursday in Japan. The grueling ritual is performed by the gyoja, or "Marathon Monks," of the Tendai School of Buddhism at Mount Hiei. The ritual began in the year 831 with the monk So-o, and involves periods of running, walking, and chanting and praying to the Japanese deity Fudo Myo-o.

Marathon des Sables

Geo — Fri, 11 Apr 2003 23:17:56 -0800

A walk in the park? How about 250 km (150 miles) over Sahara sand dunes in temperatures reaching 44°C (111°F) carrying all your food and gear. Stage 4 was a 52 mile double marathon. Today it was just a simple 26 miler. 4800 masochists have done it since 1986, ranging in age from 17 to 78. The Ahansal brothers took 7 hours 33 minutes to finish the 84 km leg. Slower than last year because of the strong winds and blowing sand. Luke Cunliffe has been blogging his experience at the end of each day. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I guess. Shall we form a MeFi team for next year?

perspectives on homelessness

damn yankee — Thu, 23 Jan 2003 14:06:37 -0800

The sixth annual National Homelessness Marathon takes place on February 5-6. The 14-hour public-radio broadcast, which will originate this year from Portland, Maine, takes place overnight, outside, in the freezing cold. This year it will be joined by the first annual Canadian National Homelessness Marathon. The event is meant to raise awareness, not money, though the recent decision in Key West to ban panhandling in the downtown district for the good of tourism, and fine panhanders $500 for their crime, indicates that there's still a long way to go in raising awareness about this issue. Particularly troubling are comments like the one made by Key West Commissioner Tom Oosterhoudt, who explains, "We have to send the message that we don't want these people to come to our city and control our streets. We control our streets."

monkeyJuice — Fri, 19 Apr 2002 10:47:39 -0800

'Diver' finishes marathon.
Next time we complain about lugging our heavy shopping home, lets spare a thought for this guy. To raise money he donned an 1940s diving suit and battled on to complete the 26 mile London Marathon. I tip my hat to you sir.