On 27 July 2009, with only 5 weeks training and no significant prior history of running, Izzard began seven weeks of back-to-back marathon runs (with Sundays off) across the UK to raise money for Sport Relief. He ran from London to Cardiff, to Belfast, to Edinburgh, and back to London carrying flags of England, Scotland or Wales depending on which country he was in, and carried a self-designed green flag bearing a white dove when in Northern Ireland. The blog Eddie Iz Running was a document of his road running marathon, in which he ran 43 marathons in 51 days. He completed the run on 15 September 2009, after having run at least 27 miles each day, 6 days a week for 7 weeks straight, covering more than 1,100 miles across the UK.Izzard received a special award at BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2009 for his achievements.

Izzard ran his final marathon in five hours and 30 seconds, narrowly outside his projected time. However, had he not stopped and waited 20 minutes for his film crew to catch up with him he could have finished well under his target time. In March 2010, Izzard took part in the Sport Relief Mile event.

Following the completion of the marathon runs, Izzard has started training to take part in an Ironman Triathlon, saying he has become fascinated with fitness "because there's no point in throwing away all that training".

Quality fella but absolute nutjob no training then he sets off to run 43 marathons day to day.
Top bloke hats off to him

i watched this at the time, seeing him have his ice baths in the evenings looked painful. running is definatly a lot to do with head strength, although he certainly wasnt breaking any records its an awsome job! i would have liked to have run with him!

i watched this when it was on , total credit to the bloke it was such an achievment to do it without wearing one of his dresses as well.hats of to him.

I too watched this 2-part docu on Eddies absolutely incredible feat.

My mate (Brian Parker) got his inspiration from Eddie, for his latest fund-raiser for Pendleside Hospice / Burnley. Brian himself is an inspiration and has raised thousands and thousands of pounds for this particular charity. His latest being .......

http://www.burnleyexpress.net/news/local-news/video_burnley_marathon_hero_finishes_1_3428616

True fact: People with the first name of Brian are usually awesome.

Eddie is awesome full stop on stage and on the road.... scuse the pun
this man has amazed me with this real life story wow


and Brian / eddie dont quite sound the same ??? lol ;-p

p.s. thanks again tho Brian for a top Share nice-1