I don’t know exactly where he was running but Jo’burg was 2 months into a heatwave when I left 6 weeks ago and it hasn’t let up yet, although the rains have finally come.
It’s hard to even think when the temp it’s the high 30’s everyday and doesn’t drop below 20 at night, must have been exhausting for him to run in it. Respect..
Been a fan for a long time but to do what he has done is truly incredible. His physical strength is not in doubt but his mental strength is super-human. Well done Mr. Izzard.
Indeed, 27 marathons on 27 days. A fantastic achievement. Most of us wouldn’t even dream of running one!
I could, possibly, walk one, but I’d be hobbling in pain for the last eight or nine miles, and probably in pain for a week afterwards.
I have untold amounts of respect for Eddie, to be able to do that is almost superhuman.
Not sure. I guess if the average person was accompanied by a camera team, medical team, physio, psychologist, a resoucre team, managment, publicist and the chance to make money from publicity via media (TV,internet,mags etc) I’m sure they could have managed it as well 🙄
Another mad man/legend his original description was as a guy who liked football, pies and beer. Ran a marathon to raise money after he lost family members to cancer I think then carried on, Ran the length of the UK, across the States and last time across Australia in the middle of summer. Now he’s running around the world. http://markallisonjogtole.blogspot.com.au/
Not meant to take anything away from Eddie who has done a heap of good work and it’s still an amazing effort.
All seemed very low key to me, he could have raised more money if he’d had more publicity I only found out about it 4 days ago from Chris Evan’s breakfast show…
Does anyone know what pace Eddie does these marathons at? Been training for a marathon walk and so far only managed one full distance walk & it took bloody ages :$ hats & dresses off to the man
According to a DM article 5h 34m on Day 22 was his quickest. I heard him talking about his previous epic on the radio before he started this one – he said he took his time & liked stopping to chat to people along the way!
Does anyone know what pace Eddie does these marathons at? Been training for a marathon walk and so far only managed one full distance walk & it took bloody ages
I read seven hours a day, somewhere, so he’s not going much faster than walking pace really.
I was thinking it was more like walking pace, but even so day after day in heat is really impressive. I am training for a 66 mile event in target of 20hrs, as a similarly aged man just staving off the pain and injuries in training (with plenty of recovery ;-)) is hard enough
