Comments on: Seven Marathons in Seven Days http://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/13/seven-marathons-in-seven-days/ The Neat Side of the Web Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:31:29 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: For Tery Fox http://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/13/seven-marathons-in-seven-days/comment-page-1/#comment-480308 For Tery Fox Sat, 15 Mar 2008 14:34:18 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/13/seven-marathons-in-seven-days/#comment-480308 What about Terry Fox, 143 marathons in 143 days. With only 1 leg (the other lost to cancer - metastatic osteosarcoma) and a tumor (which killed him shortly after he had to stop his 'Marathon of Hope'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Fox How about Rick Hansen who averaged 51km (~31miles)/day for 26 months in his wheelchair. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Hansen What about Terry Fox, 143 marathons in 143 days. With only 1 leg (the other lost to cancer - metastatic osteosarcoma) and a tumor (which killed him shortly after he had to stop his 'Marathon of Hope'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Fox

How about Rick Hansen who averaged 51km (~31miles)/day for 26 months in his wheelchair.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Hansen

]]> By: hhype http://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/13/seven-marathons-in-seven-days/comment-page-1/#comment-479601 hhype Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:52:42 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/13/seven-marathons-in-seven-days/#comment-479601 For our honeymoon, our flight from Philly to Miami was delayed and so we missed our connection to Santiago, Chile. We were not even going there to run the South American leg of a 7 day, 7 continent marathon. In travel experience, I don't know how you can just be on seven continents in seven days, let alone run a marathon on each one. I hope they have a private jet with beds to sleep in between the runs, because this sounds logistically impossible. Given the monk example above and the super-marathons I have heard about, I am will to concede that people can run the distance, it's the travel that floors me. For our honeymoon, our flight from Philly to Miami was delayed and so we missed our connection to Santiago, Chile. We were not even going there to run the South American leg of a 7 day, 7 continent marathon. In travel experience, I don't know how you can just be on seven continents in seven days, let alone run a marathon on each one. I hope they have a private jet with beds to sleep in between the runs, because this sounds logistically impossible.

Given the monk example above and the super-marathons I have heard about, I am will to concede that people can run the distance, it's the travel that floors me.

]]> By: Stephen Hocking http://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/13/seven-marathons-in-seven-days/comment-page-1/#comment-479164 Stephen Hocking Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:27:49 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/13/seven-marathons-in-seven-days/#comment-479164 That would certainly be an achievement but it rather pales into insignificance when compared with the marathon monks of Mount Hiei who start off running a marathon every day for a year and then ramp it up from there for seven years! They run on mountain paths in straw sandals, just to spice it up. Utterly astounding! http://www.kirchersociety.org/blog/2006/09/05/the-marathon-monks-of-mount-hiei/ That would certainly be an achievement but it rather pales into insignificance when compared with the marathon monks of Mount Hiei who start off running a marathon every day for a year and then ramp it up from there for seven years! They run on mountain paths in straw sandals, just to spice it up. Utterly astounding!

http://www.kirchersociety.org/blog/2006/09/05/the-marathon-monks-of-mo unt-hiei/

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