Thursday, June 24, 2010
11
marathons in 11 days - Kalyn Jolivette sets world record
PINKERTON, OH, USA -- Kalyn Jolivette,
24, a medical school student from Central Ohio, ran 11 marathons
in 11 consecutive days, completing in the end 288.2 miles,
raising thousands of dollars for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
and setting a new world record for 11
marathons in 11 days.
Photo: Kalyn Jolivette of Ohio set a
world record by running 11
marathons in 11 days for cystic fibrosis. (enlarge
photo)
One of the most impressive parts of her
accomplishment, she did it all on a high school track in Pinkerton,
Ohio. Starting on June 9, Jolivette ran 99 laps, equivalent
to the marathon distance, each day.
She did this to raise awareness and
money for the work of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Kalyn
Jolivette is a medical student at State University of New
York at Buffalo.
To raise money for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation,
she checked the Guinness world records for the most
marathons completed by a woman in consecutive days - and
added one more.
"I've come to realize that if you want to
raise awareness for something you're passionate about, you
have to do something crazy to get people's attention," said
Jolivette.
Anyone who has ever run on a track knows
that using it for distance work can be mind numbing, but Jolivette
was inspired by her cause. She has a childhood friend with
cystic fibrosis.
Jolivette is an experienced distance runner
who usually logs 100 mile weeks, and recently completed a
700-mile running challenge through all 88 counties in Ohio
in less than one month.
"It's been about what I imagined it to
be," she said. "I knew it would be really difficult. I knew
it would be tiring."
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Thursday, June 24, 2010
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