Here is an excellent article in the Wall Street Journal about one of the participants in last Sunday’s Outer Banks Marathon.

For ‘Mega Marathoners,’ the Race Is On — to Run More Races

By NEIL KING JR.

KITTY HAWK, N.C. — Some compulsives collect shoes. Others obsess over video games. Eugene DeFronzo, 73 years old, runs marathons. He clocked his 402nd here on a recent Sunday, and has three more planned this year.

The Connecticut personal-injury lawyer cracked three vertebrae when he slipped during a race last December. He pulled a hamstring in Tampa two months later, and again in Mississippi a week after that. He nearly passed out in the parched hills of South Dakota in August, finishing last by two hours. In October, he got lost in the woods of Indiana when organizers cleared away the markers.

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