#5 The infamous runners
Well, there are regular runners and then there are the crazy ones. We looked down the history books and found a couple of purely eccentric ones. The first one being Belgian runner Stefaan Engels who ran a marathon every day of the year back in 2011. When asked about the reason he was quoted as saying that he considered running marathons more as 'a regular job!'
If that left you wide-eyed, well the second one is equally surprising!
A female by the name of Rosie Ruiz reached the finish line at the 1980 Boston Marathon in 2 hours, 31 minutes and 56 seconds and thereby emerged as the winner amongst the women. But the victory was short-lived, for it was soon found that the notorious being had only joined the marathon at the finish line after taking a subway ride in the middle of the race!
