5,164 Steps of Marathon

First of all, I spend way too much time at work. My inside jokes, they are all with coworkers. My problems, I discuss them with coworkers. My texts, they usually are sent to coworkers. As I've already said, I spend way too much time at work.

The reason this matters is because there’s this one guy I work with who’s real awesome. We’re going to call him BriBri. Well BriBri has a girlfriend who is absolutely obsessed with Disney World. When I say obsessed, I mean OBSESSED. Girl sees a rat trying to eat her cheese, and she starts dreaming about Mickey Mouse. Yes. Obsessed. Anyways, one day, she woke up and decided to do this.

Before you start thinking about how bizarre it is that there are hundreds of women out there who wanna put on Cinderella tiaras and Mickey Mouse ears, then run more than 26 miles, just think about how cool it is that she just woke up one day, having never ran before in her life, and decided to run a marathon 2 months later. Yes. You heard me - 2 months later. She went from 1 mile of running to 26 miles of running in TWO MONTHS!!! Dear BriBri Girl, you psycho and crazy and Disney-obsessed, but you got some balls. Respect.

Anyways, I was talking to another coworker. We're going to call her HollyT (Btw, HollyT digs her some food. She's got a blog about foods here). HollyT and I are going to accompany one another to Singapore/Beijing this summer, and we were talking about BriBri Girl and her epic marathon-ness. Then we were thinking, wouldn't it be cool to run a marathon... in China... on the GREAT WALL!!! Just imagine, 18 miles in, you're so tired your body's failing, then you look down in front of you and there are 200 stairs you have to climb down. You don't want to finish it. But you have to... cause there's no way off the wall!!! So you start climbing down those stairs and all of a sudden BOOM! your legs fail, and you fall down 200 stairs. You're all cut up and completely exhausted... but you have to keep going... cause there's no way off the wall!!! So you keep going... and going... and going... and it sucks. But you know what? You're absolutely forced to run those 26+ miles... cause there's no way off the wall!!!

Doesn't this sound like just the best idea EVER??? Yeah, I know. Best idea ever. Plus, you get to run those 26+ miles over 5,125 steps while looking at this:

Ooooh... pretty... so awesome... so almost worth it...

Right... Well it turns out that there IS a Great Wall of China Marathon and you can find it all right here.

Yes. There are people out there stupid and crazy enough to run a marathon on the Great Wall of China. And you know what? Me and HollyT were actually considering joining that elite class of stupid, crazy people... and then we realized... damn... this is a marathon... over 5,164 steps of wall... in the mountains... in smoggy China... Well screw that.