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What's The Degree Of Difficulty For 26.2 Miles In A War Zone?
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Meet Nick Butter, who just ran the Athens Marathon. Big deal? Well, a little, because it capped a 674-day quest to run a marathon in all 196 countries in the world. Not a race in every country, but going to each country and running 26.2 miles, which can be difficult if the weather doesn't cooperate or there's gunfire everywhere or, as in the Marshall Islands, packs of wild dogs force you to run the whole thing in circles in a parking lot. Lest you think there was no point to this, he did it to raise a six figure sum for prostate cancer research, inspired by a close friend who's dying of the disease. So, it's more than a case of "because it's there." (CNN)
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