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Runner from Maryland completes all 6 marathon majors after COVID delayed his plans
Runner from Maryland completes all 6 marathon majors after pandemic delay
We’ve all heard the saying – life is a marathon, not a dash. Nevertheless it’s not usually you’ll be able to say it and imply it fairly like this. FOX 5’s Josh Rosenthal is in Silver Spring with a narrative a few marathon runner making up for misplaced time nearly precisely three years after the primary confirmed COVID case in D.C.
SILVER SPRING, Md. – It’s been an extended street for Antar Johnson.
He first spoke with FOX 5 DC on February 25, 2020.
Johnson had been working to run all six of the Abbott World Marathon Majors and having already accomplished the races in Boston, London, Berlin, Chicago, and New York, he solely had Tokyo to go.
“It’s like they pulled the rug from underneath me one week beforehand,” he mentioned on the time.
Due to the nascent pandemic, all of the coaching, the cash, the household trip Johnson had already booked – was gone.
“The pandemic, I imply it was simply, it was a sport changer,” Johnson mentioned Wednesday from his Silver Spring dwelling. “It actually simply modified everybody’s priorities.”
That’s, till now.
This previous Sunday, three entire years later, Johnson accomplished the Tokyo Marathon along with his spouse Tonia, and importantly, his daughter Karis wanting on.
“I’m attempting to instill in [Karis] the ethics of exhausting work and simply attempting to acquire a objective and it doesn’t matter what, you understand, don’t let issues get in your method, you discover a method to make it occur,” Johnson mentioned.
“He acquired this carried out,” Karis would go on to inform FOX 5. “It’s such a significant accomplishment, and I’m actually pleased with him.”
Johnson lastly acquired his Six Star medal to go together with all of the others he picked up alongside the way in which. He additionally set a private file in Tokyo, ending the race in 4 hours, 49 minutes, give-or-take, these loopy three years.
“The journey was the reward,” he mentioned. “So, now I simply have to determine what’s subsequent.”