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Amazing Feat With Their Feet
Aired November 03, 2003 - 05:23 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Well, the finishing time was not a concern for two marathoners who were hoping to complete quite an amazing feat with their feet.
CNN's Michael Okwu has that for you.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
MICHAEL OKWU, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): You might be watching the most fatiguing case of deja vu ever. Sir Ranulph Fiennes and Dr. Mike Stroud ending the week the way it started -- with a marathon. Actually, the fabled New York Marathon was their seventh, in seven days, they say on seven continents. An asterisk on that last feat, but we'll come back to that.
DR. MIKE STROUD, MARATHON RUNNER: Every time you ran one, the last thing you felt like doing following it or even the next day was setting off on another.
OKWU: Before New York, the two Englishmen ran 26.2 mile courses in Chile, the South American leg; in the Falkland Islands. Now the asterisks. Foul weather kept them out of Antarctica. The Falklands was as close as they could get. A mere 12 hours later, stage three took them to Australia, past Sydney's famed opera house. Stage four, Singapore, the midday tropical heat. By this time, they say their bodies were already ravished.
SIR RANULPH FIENNES, MARATHON RUNNER: Our bodies started being trashed badly. Michael Stroud was urinating blood by the end of the Sydney and got worse the next day. In my case, there was a time when I was going to withdraw from this, which was after the Singapore marathon. I nearly fainted at the finish.
OKWU: Remarkably, the 59-year-old Fiennes had had heart bypass surgery in June. But none of this stopped him or Stroud from completing England's stage five, followed by a midnight run in Cairo.
(on camera): Even when they're not running marathons, these are two extraordinary men. Stroud is a practicing doctor and Fiennes is an explorer who's trekked across the Andes and canoed up the Amazon.
(voice-over): In 1993, they broke a distance record when they trekked Antarctica without help from other men or animals. By mile 16 on Sunday's New York run, they looked like they could use all the help they could get. After 26.2 miles, five hours and 25 minutes later, standing out from a sea of carbo driven humanity, it was finally over.
Michael Okwu, CNN, New York.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
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Aired November 3, 2003 - 05:23 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Well, the finishing time was not a concern for two marathoners who were hoping to complete quite an amazing feat with their feet.
CNN's Michael Okwu has that for you.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
MICHAEL OKWU, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): You might be watching the most fatiguing case of deja vu ever. Sir Ranulph Fiennes and Dr. Mike Stroud ending the week the way it started -- with a marathon. Actually, the fabled New York Marathon was their seventh, in seven days, they say on seven continents. An asterisk on that last feat, but we'll come back to that.
DR. MIKE STROUD, MARATHON RUNNER: Every time you ran one, the last thing you felt like doing following it or even the next day was setting off on another.
OKWU: Before New York, the two Englishmen ran 26.2 mile courses in Chile, the South American leg; in the Falkland Islands. Now the asterisks. Foul weather kept them out of Antarctica. The Falklands was as close as they could get. A mere 12 hours later, stage three took them to Australia, past Sydney's famed opera house. Stage four, Singapore, the midday tropical heat. By this time, they say their bodies were already ravished.
SIR RANULPH FIENNES, MARATHON RUNNER: Our bodies started being trashed badly. Michael Stroud was urinating blood by the end of the Sydney and got worse the next day. In my case, there was a time when I was going to withdraw from this, which was after the Singapore marathon. I nearly fainted at the finish.
OKWU: Remarkably, the 59-year-old Fiennes had had heart bypass surgery in June. But none of this stopped him or Stroud from completing England's stage five, followed by a midnight run in Cairo.
(on camera): Even when they're not running marathons, these are two extraordinary men. Stroud is a practicing doctor and Fiennes is an explorer who's trekked across the Andes and canoed up the Amazon.
(voice-over): In 1993, they broke a distance record when they trekked Antarctica without help from other men or animals. By mile 16 on Sunday's New York run, they looked like they could use all the help they could get. After 26.2 miles, five hours and 25 minutes later, standing out from a sea of carbo driven humanity, it was finally over.
Michael Okwu, CNN, New York.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
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