Young man comes out of nowhere ... finishes 3rd in (big time) Tokyo marathon - carrying 4 iPhones

[underpants]

Runner completes 'online' marathon in Tokyo

Tokyo, Japan -- The everyman made waves at the Tokyo Marathon on Sunday: Yuki Kawauchi, who works at a high school in Saitama, Japan, grabbed a surprise third place behind the men's winner, Ethiopia's Hailu Mekonnen.

It's a tremendous feat because before today, the running world had never heard of Kawauchi, an amateur runner.

Not real people, but virtual ones, watching his run on a live stream of Tame's four iPhones.

Tame streamed his entire 42 kilometer, or 26 mile run, via an iPhone pointed at his face and one pointed at the pavement ahead. A third phone was a GPS locator so followers could track his entire run. A fourth phone allowed him to communicate to friends, typing out tweets about his progress.

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/02/27/japan.marathon.man/?hpt=C2

[KittyWampus]

1. what a great story.

[KittyWampus]

2. Wait-this story is about TWO men. The first a school teacher in Japan and the second

the one who streamed the run on the internets.

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. Yes - a highly misleading thread title

and the way the paragraphs are quoted doesn't help - the bits explaining it's 2 different people are omitted, but with no ellipsis.

[joshcryer]

4. Yeah, the title says "carrying 4 iPhones."

The guy carrying 4 iPhones came in a distant who knows.

Good for the amateur runner.

edit: the OP left out two paragraphs that would've cleared it up.

[underpants]

6. Damn I misread that - sorry

but how about the Chilean Miner (bottom of the article) who ran 10K everyday IN THE MINE??

Amazing

[Liberal_in_LA]

5. amazing!