Tipp man Shane Mullaney completes 32 races in 32 counties dressed as Spiderman!

Tipperary man Shane Mullaney is a regular on the road race circuit and for 2018, he set himself the challenge of running 32 races in all 32 Irish counties in the year and do it dressed as Spiderman!

His first race was a 5k in Littleton in Tipperary in April and his final and 32nd race was in Antrim on the 22nd of December.

Donned out in his Spiderman outfit, he finished 1st on six occasions, finished 2nd three times and in 3rd place twice.

Shane has his own Facebook page for the challenge here... https://www.facebook.com/SpidermanRuns32CountyChallenge/

Man dressed as Spiderman runs 2:30 marathon...

Last weekend, 35 year old Paul Martelletti dressed in a Spiderman costume finished the London Marathon in an amazing time of 2 hours 30 minutes and 12 seconds. That is now a new Guinness World Record time for someone running in a fancy dress costume in a marathon.

When he's not breaking records, Paul Martelletti is a handy runner in his own right with recent half-marathon wins in Brighton, Watford and Wokingham. In March, he won the Bath Half-Marathon in a time of 1:05:27.

Additional info from John Walshe...
Paul Martelletii had also won the Manchester Marathon the week before London in 2:17:47 (with Irishman Eoin Callaghan second in 2:18:45).

Before that, Martelletti had run nine half-marathons in 2015, winning six of the major ones in the UK: Wokingham, Bath, Brighton, Watford, Liverpool and Hillingdon.

As well he has run a number of Parkruns this year, with a fastest time of 15:02.

His performances on the track last year range from 1:59.57 for 800 metres to that 6:57:22 for 100km two weeks later!

Aged 35, he was born in New Zealand but now lives in London.

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.