Eddie Izzard is spending August and most of September running around the UK. All four capitals and as much in between as he can manage. 1100 miles averaging 30 miles a day for 6 days a week. For charity (Sports Relief, an arm of Comic Relief).
He only trained for 5 weeks before setting off.
I’ve been following him on Twitter as he lets us know where he is on his journey, and was cheered a few days ago to see that he had a day off. He only went and found himself a gig to do that night instead of just resting up.
Barking mad. But in a good way.
Anyone wanting to sponsor his run can head to the Sport Relief donation page to do so.
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Five weeks, say what?
I am doing the Bridge Run, Milsons Pt to Opera House 9km, at the end of September and plan to walk large slabs and probably need a month’s more training than I’m getting to do just that!
I think he had been running regularly for a while beforehand as a fitness/leisure pursuit, it was just ramping it up from whatever he was doing (5 or 10 miles regularly) to a 30 mile a day schedule that was extraordinary. I don’t think there’s any way he could have done it if he hadn’t already been regularly running.
Final proof (if proof were needed) that Izzard is truly a mad bastard. Wonder if he’ll do any performances when he hits us here in Edinburgh?