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美国67岁老人去年跑113个全马，创吉尼斯纪录；
一周7个全马不稀罕
转：美国得克萨斯州圣安东尼奥市67岁老汉劳伦斯·马肯，去年12月31日在达拉斯市郊区跑完2011年的最后一场马拉松比赛，他并没有夺得第一名，甚至连前十名也没赶上，不过他却创下一项新的世界纪录：那是马肯在2011年跑完的第113场马拉松！
49岁那年，马肯爱上了跑步
现年67岁的劳伦斯·马肯是圣安东尼奥市“艾金·冈普·斯特劳斯·豪尔和菲尔德律师事务所”的合伙人，身为律师的他经常帮客户打伤害案索赔官司，为客户赢得了一笔又一笔巨额赔偿金。
从49岁那年起，马肯爱上了跑步，尤其是爱上了跑马拉松。马肯对记者回忆说：“我记得当时在一家县法庭中和其他律师聊天，我夸口说自己打算跑一场马拉松，其他律师说：‘如果你跑完马拉松，为什么我们不能给你举办一场庆祝派对呢？’于是我开始跑了生平第一场马拉松。”
从那以后，马肯一发而不可收，经常参加美国甚至世界各地的马拉松比赛。2006年，他跑了79场马拉松比赛；2007年，他跑了93场马拉松比赛。去年，马肯竟在一年时间内连跑了113场马拉松，一举创下了“一年内跑最多场马拉松”的新世界纪录！
根据吉尼斯世界纪录的网站记载，这一纪录原本由一名韩国人保持。这名韩国人在2009年连跑了106场马拉松。
经常一边跑马拉松，一边通过电话为客户打官司
马肯在2011年共跑了总长2938英里的马拉松比赛，他总共跑坏了12双鞋子，而为了到美国乃至世界各地参加马拉松比赛，马肯乘坐飞机四处旅行的总航程就高达20万英里。事实上，在过去18年中，马肯已经跑了至少700场马拉松比赛。
身为律师的马肯经常会遇到工作和马拉松比赛互相冲突的时候，但他仍将跑马拉松比赛放在第一位，有时候他不得不一边跑马拉松，一边打电话处理工作事宜。马肯对记者说：“虽然我在电话中的声音气喘吁吁，但反方辩护律师似乎一点也不在意。”
即使跑马拉松时不幸去世，也要让朋友拖着遗体穿越“终点线”
马肯有时候会在一周内连跑7场马拉松，几乎每天跑一场。譬如去年2月，他在美国南卡罗莱纳州跑完一场马拉松，又马不停蹄地赶到美国马里兰州跑了另一场马拉松，接着他又赶到加利福尼亚州，跑了那个礼拜的第3场马拉松。每次当他跑到终点线的时候，他就直接乘车赶往机场，飞往下一个马拉松比赛城市。马肯说：“我通常都是在汽车中换好衣服的。”
马肯称，他沉迷于马拉松比赛，让许多人都感到他“发疯了”，不过马肯称，他希望自己能够鼓舞其他中老年人也能“进行一些有趣的锻炼”。马肯开玩笑说：“我曾给朋友们留下了一份特殊指令，如果我在跑马拉松的时候不幸去世了，我的朋友们应该拖着我的遗体继续往前跑，直到穿越终点线。”
注：译文漏了几个要点：1、跑第113个全马的元旦前夕，也是Macon的生日；2、他不求快，“只是把一只脚放在另一只前面”，最好成绩是4小时45分；3、他边跑边打电话的那次，是在参加关于一桩诉讼大案的电话会议，跑的是波士顿马拉松。
以下是路透社报道：
He vies for record, running 113 marathons in one year
Texas lawyer, 67, says it's not unusual for him to run 7 marathons in a week
updated 1/4/2012 1:55:45 PM ET
SAN ANTONIO — R. Laurence Macon didn't win Saturday's New Year's Double Marathon in the Dallas suburb of Allen. He didn't even come in second.
But the prominent San Antonio trial lawyer hopes that he won something else: a new world record. The race was the 113rd certified marathon that Macon completed in 2011, he said. And he did it on his 67th birthday.
"It's a great birthday gift," Macon told Reuters after completing the course.
The current record for the most marathons completed in one year by a male runner is 106, according to the Guinness World Records website. South Korea's IM Chae Ho set that record in 2009 and Macon matched it in 2010, the site says.
"If Larry did complete the 113 marathons and sends in required documentation for our records management team to review, he will have broken the current record," Sara Wilcox, a Guinness public relations and marketing assistant, told Reuters in an e-mail on Tuesday.
All work, no play
Macon, a partner with the law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer and Feld who has collected hundreds of millions of dollars in damages in lawsuits, said he sometimes does business while running marathons.
Once, he said, he conducted a conference call regarding a multimillion-dollar civil case while running in the Boston Marathon.
"The opposing counsel doesn't seem to be bothered by my heavy breathing," he told Reuters.
Macon, who said he is in "lousy" physical shape for 67, said he just "goes out there and puts one foot in front of the other" and doesn't attempt speed records. In fact, he said his fastest marathon time is four hours, 45 minutes — twice the usual winning time.
It is not unusual for him to run seven marathons in a week. He said that in February, for example, he ran a marathon in South Carolina, ran another the following day in Maryland, and a third the day after that in California. Each time after crossing the finish line, he drove to the airport, he said.
"I generally change clothes in the car," he said.
Macon, who didn't start running until age 49, estimates he has run 2,938 miles in marathons this year, gone through 12 pairs of shoes and logged 200,000 miles in the air.
"I was talking to some other lawyers at the county courthouse," he said. "I bragged that I was planning on running a marathon, and the other lawyers said, 'Why don't we throw you a party after you finish it?' So I was stuck."
He said that while his marathon career may have some people convinced that he's crazy, he hopes it inspires other middle-aged people to "get some exercise and have some fun."
"I have left specific instructions that if I die on the course, my friends are supposed to drag my body down the rest of the course and across the finish line," he said. "And then lie about the results."
R. Laurence Macon crosses the finish line in the New Year's Double Marathon in the Dallas suburb of Allen in this picture taken December 31, 2011.
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Macon在去年第113场全马
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