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AIRBORNE ALL THE WAY Friday, February 29, 2008
On Wednesday the guiness world record holder for the fastest time to complete 7 marathons acrosss 7 continents [in 27 days, I might add] came to talk to us.
Yeah.
Dr William Tan.
Dr William Tan.
Well I won't tell you much about his background, that you can find out yourself, but the thing is he's 51.
I thought he was 40.
Anyway, he told us about all the hardships he faced. For example during schl he was so poor he didnt have enuf money to buy recess. But a kind lil' girl bought noodles for him.
Operation Market Garden.
Anyway he went to RI and became a Doctor and a neurologist and all that...
Oh and btw some of my classamtes dunno wot "hypothesis" and "theory" mean.
Anyway during the race acorss 7 continents in Feb 2005 his Antarctic race was in a snowstorm. So he couldn't make it and had to go back. He told the penguins, "Watch it. I'll be back one day."
Dots.
Anyway during the race in Egypt he crashed into a donkey...
who kicked him in the face and ran off so fast that he "couldn't apologise"...
it damaged his racing wheelchair...
fractured his rib...
and bruised his neck and cheek.
Ouch. That has gotta hurt.
Anyway he went on racing across the 7 continents and made it.
During the Antarctic race [btw this is in 2007, not 2005 anymore] the sharp spikes on the show tires of his wheelchair shredded his gloves and speared [Speired! Speirs!] his hands. Ouch.
But apparently the memory of Jessica Doktor kept him going. Jessica Doktor was a girl with leukimia who had recently died. He carried her on his lap during the Boston Marathon as she had always wanted to participate.
Ooh. >Sniff<>
Anyway he completed the feat in 27 days, dunnohowmaniminutesandseconds.
The whole talk was basically about preseverence, resilience and the "never give up, never watchamacallit surrender" famous saying from I don't know where.
And he'll be racing around the track for 24 hrs in our bid to break the World record for most distance run around a 100m track in 24 hrs.
Yay.
And If you're thinking of signing up, lemme warn you first: For a family of five, it'll cost you $90/$250 to sign up. Just to run 100m.
So I advise you not to run.
Unless your not sane enough to spend that much to run 100m when you can jog for 2.4km for FREE.
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