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I read about this guy in either the Sunday Tribune or Irish Times a few months ago, he was ringing up frozen food companies to ask if he could train in their freezers in preparation for the antartic marathon!!

http://www.777challenge.com/

Great to hear he managed to complete his challenge

This guy is magic.
I saw him running on a threadmill in Grafton Street a few weeks ago so that people would donate to the Irish Cancer Society while he was training!
Ireland should be very proud of this young man.

what a brilliant story!! the man is a legend!!

I wonder if he’s going out with anyone?
does anyone know if he’s free?
Angie

fair play,
The man is, indeed, a legend.
I couldn’t walk for a week after the Cork marathon last year.
Same again for seven months, no thanks.

Despite the ongoing news reports in Ireland, Mark Scanlon (24) is not the youngest person to run marathons on all the continents. Tim Harris from Great Britain, at 23 years of age, ran marathons on all the continents within three months, finishing in early 2007. Tim’s profile is contained on the website of the Antarctic Ice Marathon, which he completed in 2006. See http://www.icemarathon.com/live/167.html. It’s unfortunate, for whatever reason, that this story about Mark Scanlon has been pushed around the media in Ireland. It’s unfair and disrespectful to Tim Harris. However, for a truly amazing feat by an Irish runner, check out http://www.iau.org.tw/news_detail.php?Id=299: Tony Mangan ran the equivalent of 10 marathons in two days last year for an official world record.
Richard Donovan
Race Director
Antarctic Ice Marathon

Interesting Richard. Thanks for setting us right.

We covered Tony here http://blog.teamgearedup.com/2008/01/irish-runner-tony-mangan-victorious-again.html amazing :-)

Hi Richard! I met a mate of yours on Saturday, John O’ Regan. I’m planning a blogpost on it later!

hi

Your update is absolutely incorrect. I can email a copy of Tim Harris’s Guinness World Record certificate confirming he completed the task as a 23-year-old on 28 January 2007. On what basis did you somehow decide that the information I supplied was incorrect? It’s a pity you didn’t contact me first.

Richard Donovan

Hi Richard…. I’ve emailed the source for confirmation of the same evidence.

Real apologies if incorrect (again!).

Hi Robin, no problem. It’s obviously not the most important of records, but for the sake of accuracy I’ve emailed a copy of the Guinness World Record cert held by Tim Harris. It confirms that he was 23 years 339 days old when he completed a marathon on all seven continents on 28 January 2007. It acknowledges him as “the youngest man to complete a marathon on all seven continents”. Unless Mark Scanlon has an age reveral mechanism, he couldn’t be the youngest person to do so when 24 years old one year later. FYI, a 21 year-old called Raj Patel recently completed a marathon on all seven continents and he is gathering his paperwork for Guinness now. Cheers, Richard.

Just to add to this debate a little Richard, I do believe that Raj Patel was 22 years old when he finished doing all 7 continents, when he finished in Australasia.
Is this not correct?

I don’t know if Raj was 22 years old when he finished, but I can find out his exact age (years and days). I will post it here.
Cheers, Richard.

Hi Nicholas, it looks like Raj Patel was 22 years and 40 days when he finished the Canberra Marathon on his final continent. It’s obviously irrelevant to the preceding discussion - but just information that somebody younger than Tim has also now run marathons on seven continents.
Richard.