Top Items About Endurance

Type	Title	Teaser	Author	Views	Rating
Images	Loch Ness Marathon	In April 2002, Lloyd Scott earned a place in the record books by "running" the London marathon in five days, eight hours and 29 minutes... wearing a 150lb diving suit. In November 2002, Scott attempted to break his record at the New York Marathon, pausing several times -- for example, to enjoy a hot dog. [In October 2003, Scott (whose stunts raised money for children with cancer) "ran" the Loch Ness marathon, covering the entire 26-mile, 385-yard course underwater.]	root	140	1 2 3 4 5
Trivia	Doping & the placebo effect	An analysis published a few years ago [c. 2004] suggested that perhaps a third of medically approved drugs might be acting...	root	65
Trivia	World record kiss	In 2006, an Italian man and a Thai woman set a new world record for kissing -- 31 hours, 18 minutes, in Vicenza,...	root	55
Anecdotes	Finger of God	"The nineteenth century produced great preachers in Wales, some of whom are remembered to this day. John Elias was one such.	Anonymous	47
Anecdotes	Gossamer Albatross	In June 1979, Paul MacCready`s Gossamer Albatross won aviation`s largest prize, the $200,000 Kremer Award for a...	Anonymous	26
Images	Funny Ad: Eveready Batteries	...	root	24
Anecdotes	Dean Karnazes - relay race	Endurance runner Dean Karnazes once ran in a 12-man, 200-mile relay race, by himself. He beat two of the other teams.	root	22
Anecdotes	Phyrric Victory	At the Olympic games in 1912, Estonian Martin Klein and Finn Alfred Asikainen endured a Greco-Roman middleweight...	Anonymous	20
Anecdotes	Rachmaninov`s Constant	When the composer and pianist Sergei Rachmaninov played his seemingly interminable Variations on...	Anonymous	20
Anecdotes	David Blaine: Cheesy Stunt	David once spent 62 hours entombed in ice in Times Square as “the world’s ONLY LIVING ICE CUBE.” Though many were impressed with the stunt, rival magician Noah Kelly was not among them. While sitting in the bath one day, Kelly had a “Eureka!” moment. “I was thinking how cheesy [David’s stunt] was,” he recalled, “and I thought I could do it surrounded by cheese.” Sure enough, in March 2003, Kelly and his laptop were encased in 16 giant blocks of cheese in an English mall. The cheese?	Anonymous	19