Chuck Engle and I have run in the same marathon, the Tupelo Marathon. I hardly noticed him because I was struggling and in pain the whole time. From Running Times online…
Chuck Engle: Fast Marathon Junkie
How many sub-3 marathons can YOU run in a year?
By Jim Gerweck
As featured in the December 2010 issue of Running Times Magazine
Chuck Engle's Facebook nickname is "MarathonJunkie," and it's certainly apropos: He's definitely a guy who never met a 26-miler he didn't like (or run).
While there may be people who have run more of them, and there are certainly those who have run faster, if quantity and quality are considered together, Engle's the champ, hands down.
The 39-year-old resident of Dublin, Ohio, has run more sub-3:00 marathons than anyone besides Michigan masters runner Doug Kurtis (the two of them are vying to be the first to hit the century mark there), cranking out 50 of them in 2008 alone. And he's No. 2 in marathon victories in the world (first American), many in course-record times, most of them sub-3:00. But according to Engle, none of this is any part of some grand scheme to secure a place in Guinness World Records or some hall of fame. Like some real-life Forrest Gump, Engle simply likes to run.
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