Larry Macon ran two marathons on Saturday and Sunday. It was a light weekend of running for Macon, who ran a record 255 marathons in 2013. Sunday’s marathon was the 1,500th of his career.
Macon, who started running at 54, joked that he wasn’t too impressed with the weekend. “I just did two,” he told Runner’s World Newsire. “I’m getting old.”
Macon, an attorney in San Antonio, Texas, finished marathon No. 1,500 at the Big Sky Marathon in Madison, Montana. He ran the Madison Marathon the day before.
He returned home with a shirt and a medal from each, adding to his collection.
Currently, the majority of his medals are sitting in a big, heavy box in his home. He has some displayed around the house, and clinks through the box every once in a while to exhibit some of his favorites—like the silver horseshoe he got for running the Sandhills Marathon in Nebraska. Eventually he plans to donate his medals to Medals4Mettle, a charity organization that gives medals to children undergoing cancer treatment.
He gives away most of his race shirts as gifts, but his friends are sick of them so now he takes them to the Salvation Army. “I see some kids around town wearing my shirts,” he said, “although I guess they’re not necessarily mine, but the odds are pretty good.”
Macon, who has a PR of 4:15 but is usually in the five- to seven-hour range, said he travels at least 150,000 miles per year chasing marathons around the country. When he’s going somewhere beautiful like Hawaii or Alaska, his wife, Jane, travels with him. “She’s incredibly supportive,” Macon says. She tells people Macon would be working all the time if it wasn’t for the running.
Instead, running reigns supreme. And it’s not stopping. He’s heading to Alaska for his next two marathons this weekend. Jane is going, too.
