Eddie Izzard ran 43 marathons in 52 days. For charity.

[alfredo]

I hope he wore sensible pumps.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6836044...


To the cheering of taxi drivers and the tooting of horns, the comedian and actor Eddie Izzard ran into London yesterday to complete his 43rd marathon in 52 days, a feat of jogging in which he had covered 1,100 miles.

Fighting blisters that have caused the nails on his smaller toes to fall off and his larger toes to swell into “alien monsters”, he sprinted up The Mall and into Trafalgar Square where he started 7½ weeks ago.

In finishing he proved what many thought was an impossible task: that a 47-year-old cross-dresser with no sporting inclination could complete an endeavour usually reserved for a small band of endurance athletes and masochist

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Eddie is one of my favorite comedians

[TexasObserver]

1. WOW! And I'm saying that like Christopher Walken.

[deaniac21]

5. LOL

[FiveGoodMen]

2. Amazing

He's goddamned smart, too.

And funny.

[SoCalDem]

3. and probably seriously "slimmed-down" after all that

He's something else

[alfredo]

7. Look at him in the video.

[Kerrytravelers]

4. Eddie is so awesome.

He's one of my favorite entertainers. I Eddie!

[EFerrari]

6. I love Eddie Izzard.

[alfredo]

12. He's all over youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ope-1Zb5t-k

[myrna minx]

8. I love Eddie.

[ljm2002]

9. Holy crap! Good for him!!

I hope his feet heal up okay!!!

K&R

[Book Lover]

10. I've been following him on Twitter

So amazing! The man defines the term "dedicated."

[kenny blankenship]

11. In HEELS.

[berni_mccoy]

13. He did an outstanding job in Valkyrie. Awesome Job on the Marathons Eddie!

[alfredo]

28. He can play a real good bad guy.

[valerief]

14. Wow! Way cool!

[DavidDvorkin]

15. He said that now he's ready to run for office

Something to the effect that having run all over England, now he's ready to run England.

But that may have been a joke.

[Canuckistanian]

16. When I saw "Eddie Izzard", I thought "what a coincidence"...

...there's a comedian by that name, too!

Wow. 47 and just starting to run marathons?

[alfredo]

17. He wanted to make sure he was good and rested.

[charlie]

19. Yeah, he was underconditioned enough

that he experienced a serious "training effect", going from 10 hours to 5 hours per marathon. IOW, he probably did most of it by sheer dint of will, moreso than most marathoners. A remarkable feat, but likely one that'll extract a cost on his body.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

18. Damn! There goes my excuse.................

I've wanted to start running again (haven't run/jogged in 18 years), but I thought it would be too hard on my 41yo frame. Then Eddie goes and does all this w/ only 5 weeks training. Bravo!

[alfredo]

27. I'm not allowed to run. I have degenerative disc disease. I walk.

[iris27]

20. Way to go, Eddie! Holy cow!

Apparently he wasn't joking about "running, jumping, climbing trees"!

[CurtEastPoint]

21. Have always loved Eddie. Saw him live in ATL last summer. He skewered B*sh

and the crowd roared, minus one or 2 assholes who booed. The best part was it was at Cobb Energy Center, smack in right-wingish Cobb County.

[bigwillq]

22. Awesome!

[subcomhd]

23. One of my favorite comedians. Eddie I rocks! nt

[muriel_volestrangler]

24. He wore seven pairs of pumps, actually

http://www.thesun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/mattmeets...

That's if you use the regional (northern, I'd say) British definition of 'pumps' as 'sports shoes':

OED:

Brit. (now regional), a sports shoe, a plimsoll ...
1775 C. LENNOX Old City Manners I. i. 2 Hey-day! what have we here? tennis pumps and a racket.
1897 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 104. 203/3 Men's gymnasium shoes... Men's low cut canvas pumps, canvas sole,
1974 P. WRIGHT Lang. Brit. Industry ii. 28 For rubber-soled canvas shoes we have pumps, plimsolls, gym-shoes and squeakers.

[Fuzz]

25. Good lord!

[ms liberty]

26. Eddie rocks. K&R n/t

[SidDithers]

29. That's a lot of miles...

well done Eddie!

Eddie in a very funny version of The Four Yorkshiremen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2kymjRpzNs

Sid

[alfredo]

30. It appears he ran himself in shape. I hope he didn't do permanent damage

to his joints.

[xchrom]

31. you GO Miss Eddie!

i wonder who made which heels that worked best?

[BoneDaddy]

32. LOVE Eddie

"no flag, no country" Go man go!

[alfredo]

33. Love his anti imperialism rants.