Yeah right. He made a point to bring attention to himself for a good cause. And he didn't even come close.
I would think if he was serious about his "cause" he would have took a couple of months to prepare and did a few workouts before he decided he could get people to be interested.
His whole thing was, lets just see how many people will bet on this. He could have tried. But that wasn't the point.
It was pretty lame. Let's see how many people will get suckered into believing a former elite runner can run a jv high school time for a 5k 10 years after retiring. Well it worked. He got his picture on Lets Run one more time looking like the second biggest showboat since Marc Davis.