Pat Farmer (Photo: Pole to Pole Run)
Close your eyes. Imagine what it would feel like to run a marathon. Now imagine that you’ve run not just one marathon, but two marathons in a single day. Seems crazy. Now imagine you’ve run two marathons in a day, every day, for 10 months straight without a day off!
Meet Pat Farmer. He’s an ultramarathoner from Australia who is in the process of running from the North Pole to the South Pole. He covers 50 miles a day, except when he is using snow shoes near the poles. He only manages 16 miles a day in snow shoes.
Unfortunately, Farmer isn’t as good at attracting attention as he is at running. He is doing the run to raise money for the International Red Cross. His fundraising goal before he started was $100 million, he’s almost done with the adventure and only $100,000 has been donated.
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Not to belittle his achievement (Lord knows I couldn’t do it), but that averages out to about 3 mph over a 16 hour day. That’s more of a brisk walk than a jog or a run. Still, it’s doing it for 16 hours a day, every day, and doesn’t include breaks.
That just sucks. What a waste to run so friggin far and only raise $100,000. He could have traveled by car,boat and the like and probably made that much in donations. But the idea is good. And way to go on running such extremes!
Hate to spoil it for you guys but he finished on January 19th.
My only problem is that I followed the first sentence of this post literally (“Close your eyes.”).
Now I can’t read the rest of the post.
Now imagine that Cancer required you to have had one leg amputated.
Now imagine on that one remaining leg you set out to run a marathon each and everyday across Canada starting in St Johns Newfoundland to raise money and awareness for Cancer research.
Imagine a “Marathon of Hope”.
Now imagine you kept up this pace for 143 days and 5,373 kilometres until Cancer ravaged the rest of your body and took your life- mid-run!
Meet Terry Fox. Canadian humanitarian, athlete, and cancer research activist.
Fortunately his legacy lives on. International runs in his name have raised over 500 million for Cancer research.
how did this man do it
im half his age and can’t even do good fitness. he is inspiration
Eric Crampton on the economics of charity runs
Pat Farmer is extraordinary- first off for having a dream and sticking with it- and second for having a dream to help others. Even though it is very sad that Farmer didn’t raise as much as he would like..its better than nothing at all. At least he knows that he has people who appreciate his actions…