{"id":9244,"date":"2011-08-25T01:35:28","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T08:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=9244"},"modified":"2011-08-25T01:35:28","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T08:35:28","slug":"grand-princess-marathon-charity-runmarathoners-plan-for-princess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=9244","title":{"rendered":"Marathoner's Plan for Princess"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>My more-than-capable colleague (and wife of many years) slipped me an unusual cruise story yesterday. It’s about a man and a marathon…actually, a man and many marathons, the latest of which he may be running as we speak, somewhere on the waters of the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n

This is not a man who can run on water, although in my world anybody who can run a marathon deserves that kind of stature, but he can run a marathon on a ship on water. The ship is the Grand Princess<\/a> (left), the man is Steve Eaton and by all accounts this will be his 31st marathon, all but 30 of them on cruise ships.<\/p>\n

If you’re wondering why he’s doing this, the story on the Sunday Mercury’s website<\/a> in England has all the details. In short, it’s a tribute to a friend, Christopher Chacksfield, a police officer who was murdered last year. A charity called Help for Heroes<\/a> was dear to Christopher’s heart, and Marathon Man hopes to raise 100,000 pounds (about $165,000) in his buddy’s memory.<\/p>\n

Eaton’s going to start running laps \u2014 76 of them \u2014 around the Grand Princess at 6 a.m. on\"\"<\/a> a day when the sea is nothing more than a light chop. He’s hoping passengers will join him for a lap or two. More than that, he’s hoping passengers will contribute to the cause.<\/p>\n

It’s a nice story and it may get the attention of the folks at Guinness because by all accounts a marathon has never been run at sea.<\/p>\n

There’s only one thing wrong with the story.<\/p>\n

Steve Eaton is called a “Grandad” and I’m sure there’s a bunch of us hoping the idea won’t spread…although I’m also sure we could run 76 laps around the Grand Princess.<\/p>\n

Between sleeps, that is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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