Photography And Half-Thoughts By Mitchell Hegman

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Saturday, March 6, 2021

The Wrong Burden

I try to walk at least two miles each day.  When I feel frisky, I might walk all the way to my mailbox and back.

That’s four miles.

When Cory Phillpott, a 23-year-old athlete from Australia feels frisky, he runs a marathon.  Cory recently ran a 26.2-mile marathon through Jamison Park in Penrith, New South Wales.  He crossed the finish line at a time of 16 hours and 12 minutes.

Pretty slow, actually.

But his time is a bit more impressive when you factor in that Cory Phillpott completed the marathon while pulling a 1.6-ton Ford Ranger pickup.

His feat is not eligible for the Guinness World Record because he pulled the wrong vehicle.  To qualify for that, he needed to pull a city car, half the size of the pickup.

— Mitchell Hegman

Source: UPI

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