When you've completed one marathon, why not do 43 more?

[MarkyD]

44 days. 44 countries. 44 marathons:

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-d...

[C3PO Marathon]

Quite an accomplishment, but neither he nor the article mention the fact that at least some of these are not actual races, but him running a marathon distance.

I see that Oslo is on his list, but there aren't any marathons in Oslo this time of year. I wondered where he actually ran, so I've checked his website against an official list of races, and there weren't any marathons in Norway on the date he ran. I also see from the photo that he ran in Oslo city centre, and there certainly wasn't anything on then.

Sorry to be so picky! He is definitely an impressive man.

[MarkyD in reply to C3PO]

Thanks for confirming my thoughts. When I learned that he's run every day I thought that it was impossible that they were all 'organised' races. By my calculations he was in UK on the day of the London Marathon... I wonder if he competed in that?

[MarkyD in reply to MarkyD]

Yes he did!!

results-2017.virginmoneylon...

[C3PO Marathon in reply to MarkyD]

I'm glad you didn't think I was too unkind.

[Tomas Marathon]

I thought the same as C3PO when I first read the story. And of course it makes things a little easier when he can do the runs as-and-when it happens to fit into the overall logistics. But that doesn't change the fact that 44 x 42 km in 44 days is an awful lot of running. Well done to him!