MCCRR

The blankets collected during June were donated to a random community center in Pretoria (the first one we found while driving around) at 5pm on Saturday 9th July 2011. It happened to be this church.

In the USA in 2009, there were 468,000 recorded marathon finishing times.
Average time for men = 4h24.
Average time for women = 4h52.

While it seems Americans are relatively slow, just to QUALIFY to run Boston in the open category (age 18-34) , men must run sub 3:10, whilst women must run sub 3:40. And they're toughening qualification procedures from 2012!

Where do you rank against some of these celebrity marathon runners?

Pop artist Ronan Keating (Boyzone) ran the London marathon in 2008 in 3:59:33.

Canadian singer Alanis Morissette ran the New York City marathon in 2009 in 4:28:45.

Actress Katie Holmes ran the New York City marathon in 2007 in 5:29:58.

Actor Freddie Prinze Jr ran the Los Angeles marathon in 2006 in 5:50:49.

David Lee Roth (from Van Halen) has subsequently run a litle faster than 6 hours!