At start of 2022, man vowed to stop drinking and run 365 marathons. He's two away from his goal and has raised $2 million +

365 actual marathons or 365 twenty-six milers?

An actual marathon is 26.2 miles

I hope this isn't some kind of "daily marathon is healthy" thing. Get that doctor from your other thread to run alongside him

Personally, I consider a marathon to be an organized race of marathon distance.

And of course this thread goes off the rails

Good for you

What do you mean by “organized”?

I’ve never understood people who’d only give money to charity when someone runs marathon after marathon to extract it out of them.

Have you done many organized races?

I would say that an organized race requires a schedule that’s known in advance, for example “starts at 9:00am”, a course that is known in advance as well, someone to keep score like a race official, specific entry criteria (could be as simple as show up at 9:00 and toe the line, or could be complicated, like the Boston Marathon). Also needs to operate under a set of rules, and ideally have other competitors. Most organized races would also publish results in some fashion.

I didn’t read the article. Anyone know if these were bona fide races, or just a dude and his garmin slogging 42K runs every day?

Not really impressed with the "marathon" a day - anyone can run that far if they go slow enough . Conning people into giving up 2 million dollars is impressive though. That is a lot of people conned considering most will give just a few dollars.

A marathon is a race. You know this. 10/10. Expect lots of action.

Don't British runners have a history of this?

Prideful feats such as these should not be advertised for the purpose of charity.

These runs don't count as marathons unless he pooped himself, peed himself, got bloody nipples or projectile vomited at some point. And most important, a finisher's medal of some sort. If he does any more than once, it carries forward to the next.

Does this bring back memories of “UK marathon man” Robert Young to anyone else? He wrote a book about running 370 marathons in a year before taking things big time with his run across America. Now that was a thread to remember

Only hobbyjoggers care about completing marathons. They view completing the distance as more impressive than running a fast shorter race.

I continued to drink in 2022 and kept a log of all my drinking. I'll post the results on or after Jan 1.

Its 26.219 miles, silly.