WOAH. Guy is attempting an EPIC half marathon feat!

Perhaps he should aim higher - run a sub-3 hour marathon in every state or something like that.

Interesting....

There is a lady I know of (ran with for a few miles during an ultra) that did something similar where she ran 52 marathons in 52 weeks for some charity related to Africa. She would fly all over the country to do these races and then put in her blog how this race was "for so and so" and all this stuff.

When I first read about it, my thought was the same as what you guys are saying on here "why not just save the money you are spending from flying around the country/rental cars/hotels/etc and donate it?"

It really doesn't make sense to me other than "look at me... look at what I did...and oh, yeah, I raised money for charity" which makes, to the person doing it, all of the other expenses okay!

OldManRunner wrote:

There is a lady I know of (ran with for a few miles during an ultra) that did something similar where she ran 52 marathons in 52 weeks for some charity related to Africa. She would fly all over the country to do these races and then put in her blog how this race was "for so and so" and all this stuff.

When I first read about it, my thought was the same as what you guys are saying on here "why not just save the money you are spending from flying around the country/rental cars/hotels/etc and donate it?"

It really doesn't make sense to me other than "look at me... look at what I did...and oh, yeah, I raised money for charity" which makes, to the person doing it, all of the other expenses okay!

Whatever happened to the guy that was trying to run like 300 marathons in 2010? I remember the post on LetsRun but forgot all about it.