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Shalane Flanagan's feat of running marathons on back-to-back days is 'frankly inhuman'

Shalane Flanagan is just days away from achieving the impossible: running each of the world's six major marathons in under three hours — all in 43 days. To the common person, the feat seems otherworldly. Even the top competitors in distance running, like marathon breakout star and Olympic bronze medalist Molly Seidel, see what she's doing as "frankly inhuman." (Insider.com) At the NYC Marathon, Shalane Flanagan eyes an unprecedented sixth marathon in six weeks
Sometime before noon on Sunday, Shalane Flanagan should cross the finish line of the NYC Marathon. That, alone, will be no small feat for the.