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Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Woman wins Marathon in USA dressed in a Spiderman Costume...

Last Sunday, Camille Herron was the first woman home and 5th overall in the 1st woman, 5th overall at the Route 66 Marathon in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Nothing too unusual in that except Herron had just run the 26.2 mile route in 2:48:51 in a Spiderman suit!!......or should that be Spiderwoman? Her time was 20 minutes under the previous Guinness Book of World Records mark for a women's marathon in a superhero costume.

In a post race interview, she said......."It was one of the wildest things I've ever done! Much tougher than I expected. I was hitting 20+ seconds [per mile] slower than what I'd expect, right off the bat, and I couldn't seem to go any faster. The resistance of the suit/breathing/heat generation felt like running a marathon at high altitude in the heat". Herron is a 2:37 marathoner and Sunday's win was her seventh career marathon victory.
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  1. Camille23/11/12 10:05 pm

    Thank you for the interest and shout out! It was a fun experience and record to go for! My husband is an Irishman btw, Conor Holt, who's from Dublin and was a 6-time All-American at the Univ. of Oklahoma.

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