Truse Perserverance!

Strange News Man Runs 7 Marathons in 5 Days By LiveScience Staff posted: 05 February 2009 10:17 pm ET Buzz up! del.icio.us Digg It! Newsvine reddit 6 Comments | 3 Recommend Richard Donovan, a 42-year-old from Ireland, is as close to being the real Forrest Gump as anyone. Running to raise money for a charity called Goal, which works to ease suffering in Darfur, Donovan ran seven marathons on seven continents. If you know your continents, you know that's a challenge. More: He did it in 5 days. The order of Donovan's insanity, which began Jan. 31: Antarctica Cape Town, South Africa Dubai London Toronto Santiago, Chile Sydney, Australia "What he did was staggering, quite remarkable," John O'Shea, the charity's founder and chief executive, told the news agency AFP. To prove he's human, Donovan took airline flights between destinations. To keep it real, he flew coach.