“I’d like to see the Kenyan improve his marathon time by two hours,” he joked.
That’s what Kelly Gneiting said after completing the second marathon of his life in nearly 10 hours of jogging and walking. Normally that would be a terrible time, but considering that the guy is a 400lbs sumo wrestler, I would say that’s pretty good.
I can’t say I’ve ever had a goal of running a marathon, but several of my Kilimanjaro group members were and are active runners, completing various running thing-a-ma-jigs. One of them, Jim Hodgson, even used to be a pretty big guy 10 years ago. Now he completes marathons and Ironman competitions fairly regularly, throwing in the occasional hike up massive boobs. It’s an inspiration, even to a skinny guy. I’m still not going to be in the Boston Marathon anytime soon, but I am going to make it my goal to run at least 10 miles straight by the end of the summer, with an ultimate goal of 15.
If a 400lbs guy can do it, so can I.
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For the Sake of Science 
In infantry school we had to do a 5 mile “eagle run” in under 45 minutes. It almost killed me. I’m not sure what was going to happen if most of us hadn’t finished in under 45, but they made it sound like we didn’t want to know, lol.
Marathon really isn’t that bad. You could train up and do one by the fall, no problem. You only need about 12 weeks or so.
People think its this big horrible thing that will probably kill you, and it is kind of long, but anyone can do it.
I’ll stick to Happy Days marathons.
My primary problem has always been side cramps. I always could do sprints, no problem. Even made States one year. But my long distance running has never been great.