The Marathon Runner Who Tracked His Donairs in a Public Spreadsheet
David Wadden ran the 42.2-kilometre marathon at the Valley Harvest Marathon in Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley, CBC reports, after an unorthodox training regimen. Starting in February, that regimen included one donair excursion a week. He rated the donairs on factors such as meat and pita quality, tracked the results in a publicly available spreadsheet, and weighed them to calculate the price per pound. The fuel did not always cooperate: Wadden said that most of the time he was a little sluggish getting back out and running after a donair, though there was the odd time he felt better and did not know why.
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The spreadsheet is the real endurance event. Rating meat and pita quality is one thing; weighing a donair to calculate price per pound is the kind of commitment that deserves a bib.
A beautiful dataset does not make a training plan. He said he was usually sluggish getting back out to run, though he felt better after a donair on the odd occasion; that sounds less like fuelling and more like a dare.