Man Runs 100 Marathons in 100 Days for Charity
It takes a car traveling 60 miles per hour for 43 hours and 40 minutes to go the distance of 100 marathons. That’s 2,621.88 miles. KP Kelly is running that distance in 100 days—one marathon a day—for charity.
“I’m not a man of a lot of talent,” Kelly said. “But I can run really far without stopping.”
He’s also a man of impressive stature, towering at 6 feet 7 inches tall. Most wouldn’t think he knows how it feels to be small or diminutive, but Kevin Patrick Kelly has gone by KP since he was a child for precisely that reason.
“I have a cousin who’s 'big Kevin,' and as a little kid, I didn’t want to be called 'little Kevin' anymore,” Kelly said. “I’m 6 feet 7 inches, but big Kevin is still bigger, so I’m still little Kevin at every family gathering.”
Like Forrest Gump, he’s running across America from coast to coast. He started in Los Angeles on Dec. 10, 2016 and will end up in Daytona Beach on Mar. 20, 2017.
