Several thousand runners participated in Grandma's Marathon in Duluth, Minnesota, last week. Eric Strand wanted to scope out the route ahead of time. Or else he thought it wasn't challenging enough. So he started at 3AM and ran the entire race course backwards, from the finish line to the starting line …and then turned around and ran it forward! Lucky for us, he had a camera with him for the whole thing. Ultramarathoner Strand is training for a 100 mile race in August. -via Metafilter
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Thanks for dropping in, Eric!
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LOL, thanks for the suggestion . . . might have to try that next year!
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"...and then turned around and ran it forward!" Why did he have to turn around? If he ran backwards to the starting point, he was already facing the right position to run the marathon.
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