A goat named Joshua joined a half-marathon in Newfoundland, Canada on Sunday. He was in a pumpkin patch when he saw people running by. His owners caught up to him with a quarter-mile left to go and walked him the rest of the way. Organizers gave him a medal when he finished………………..A 30-year-old from Kenya broke a world record at the Chicago Marathon yesterday, becoming the first woman to run one in under 2 hours and 10 minutes. Her time was 2 hours, 9 minutes, and 56 seconds. She beat the old record by almost two full minutes……………..And finally………….
Also in Chicago, a man named Matt Brusich skipped the marathon, and raised money for charity by running 79 laps around his own block. It was actually 79.38 blocks. He measured it out, so it was exactly 26.2 miles. He called it the Homegrown Marathon and did it to raise money for his local homeless shelter. He finished in just under 5 hours and 52 minutes, and raised over $11,000. (Here’s a funny map he made of the route he took.)