11-year-old Scottish boy Seb Jellema has started a running streak, vowing to beat Ron Hill's 52-year streak when he's 62

Kid will lose interest within a year. Why didn’t I get news coverage when I made outrageous claims when I was younger?

I have a hard time thinking of something any less interesting, and I have a great imagination.

1) the kid won't do it

2) You'll be dead long before 2075.

I remember your claims.

A kid who is allegedly committed and dedicated to a decades-long endeavor and he has play dates ?

Something is very wrong with this story.

"His commitment to the challenge has seen him be late for play-dates so he could run beforehand."

Yet you clicked on it and took the time to comment.

Is there nothing that isn't great about you, oh great Flagpole?

Didn't do Ron much good, had poor health for the last five years of his life and died at 82, which is not considered particularly old these days.

Not that it really matters as the kid will be buggered by his teens and give it away, if he's still doing until his teens that is.

Sounds good

Adhering to a running streak is not in itself necessarily unhealthy. Running 10-20 miles per day over decades may not be as good for your health in the long term as running 2-5 miles per day but either one would count for streak-breaking purposes, although I am sure that your descendants will assert that Ron's record counts as better even when this kid or someone else breaks it because he ran more miles or ran them faster or because he was a top shelf elite runner in his day. I say, congrats to young Seb for setting high goals and being consistent in pursuing his goal this long, which is very rare at his age. How many 11 year olds are able to focus on something even this long?

"Streaking" IS necessarily unhealthy, but at least adults are capable of understanding and assuming the risks entailed. What happens when this kid inevitably catches the flu, or Covid, and spikes a fever? Will his parent honor his determined commitment and let him go for a run in spite of the very real danger to his developing heart?

Streaking is straight-up OCD behavior. It's disquieting when adults do it and downright abusive when minors are indulged in it. The fact the running is a generally healthy activity doesn't change this a bit.

We should be standing up for running as a sport , and streaking, whatever else it may be, is not sport.

Is that Trevor Lawrence's kid?

Flagpole DOES have a great imagination - like beating the Dow Jones 32 out of 34 years. Just incredible imagination.

The only time a running streak would be interesting would be if the runner somehow never encountered a compelling reason to take a day off-- i.e. never got sick or seriously injured. To keep his "streak" going, Ron Hill was reduced to hobbling around on a plaster cast, inside an airplane cabin, and calling it a "run".

If a streak literally can't end unless the streaker decides it has (or dies), what is the point?

The point would be whatever the person having the streak decided to make it, kind of like many, many things in life. I think it's beyond cool that someone who was nine when Ron died knows about him and his career. I am now planning to live another 52 years so I'll be there to congratulate him if he does make it.

This. Sorry a mile on crutches doesnt count as a run- I know it was a great streak and he was a great runner but the streak ended that day. Its sad and still a great streak but plenty of people have longer legit streaks and dont get credit for a "record". I dont get to say my 5k was 1322 because it wasnt.

We used to think running streaks were kind of dumb generally if youre running hard you need a day from time to time. As Ive gotten older they seem more and more impressive it takes good dedication and good health some luck and some insanity and family support. If you have all that and want to do it good for you.

Also obv everyone can have a slightly different definition of what a run is. For me it used to be 3 miles minimum i wouldnt write in less than that now its maybe 2 lol. I dont have a streak but a mile on crutches def doesnt count sorry.

Yes, agree. Hill's streak ended with the mile on crutches. As much as Hill tried to convince himself it counted, it wasn't a legit run.

Running just to keep a streak alive can be very unhealthy. You force yourself (because absolutely no one else cares) to run when you really shouldn't. I had a streak of about 18 months going once, didn't want to break it. When it inevitably broke because of illness, it was actually a great relief because I knew I would never try to get another streak going.

No disrespect to Ron, but based on his criteria I have run everyday since the day I first walked. If I was a legit streaker, I would could this out to give some credibility to streaking. Streakers staying silent indicates there is not much validity to their streak claims.