August, indeed

[Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man]

Now I read MLCMan's casual mention of FOUR SOLID HOURS on one of these bad boys and I shake my head in disbelief. Astonishing stuff.

I've told this story before but I'll tell it again - one of our local ultramarathon heroes scored himself a sponsorship deal with a sports store. Part of the contract required him to do a 24-hour run on a treadmill in the store's front window as a publicity stunt. No worries, son, he duly did the run and broke the Australian 24-hour record in the process.

But you know what was really astonishing about it?
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...it was the first time he'd ever run on a treadmill.