No laughing matter: Izzard finishes marathon challenge

By Joe Sinclair

Wednesday, 16 September 2009

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/no-laughing-matter-izzard-finishes-marathon-challenge-1787961.html

As a transvestite comic who claimed never to have run farther than five miles before, Eddie Izzard was always an unlikely candidate to run 1,100 miles around Britain in aid of charity. But yesterday the 47-year-old stand-up comic arrived in Trafalgar Square having completed 43 marathons across the country in just 52 days.

Izzard undertook five weeks' training for the 'marathons' – some 31 miles long – with just one rest day a week to raise more than £200,000 Sports Relief.