Marathoner Admits he Knows he Can Run for Free

SAN FRANSISCO–Avid marathoner Brendon Pfeffer, originally from a small town outside of Toronto, has just admitted to us that he knows he doesn’t have to pay someone money to run.

In fact, he’s known this since his very first marathon, which was just outside a small town in Portland.

“Yeah, I know,” Blake said in response to our question. “I just feel like it isn’t a really good run unless it costs you a few hundred dollars.”

As a concerned news agency, Iron E-News, from time to time, has sent a team to various marathons big and small just to make sure that everyone there knows they are under no such obligation to spend money in order to run very, very long distances. We have found that, unlike Blake, not everyone knows.

Here is one exchange at a marathon just outside a small town in Seattle:

Reporter: Ma’am, how much did it cost you to run today?

Marathoner: Well, 100 for the race, 50 for parking, and another 200 for snacks and juice.

Reporter: Are you being forced into this against your will?

Marathoner: No, silly. It’s just the way it is. Everyone knows that if you wanna run somewhere scenic, and get a specially designed T-shirt, you have to pay a lot of money.

Even Blake has told us that the urge to pay money to run has become something he can’t really control, and he does it without even thinking.

“I was getting ready for my morning 10K the other day and I handed a fifty to my roommate. He said, ‘What’s this’? I said, ‘Take it, I’m going for a run.'”

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