Actor Shia Labeouf, known of late for his erratic off-screen behavior, ran what he dubbed a ‘#Metamarathon‘ over the weekend in Amsterdam (while wearing “day-glo spandex” or “violet and green lyca” depending upon the source).
The ‘Metamarathon’ consisted of Labeouf running 144 times around the Stedelijk museum in Amsterdam. No word yet on how far it actually is around the museum.
Hendrik Folkerts, the Stedelijk museum’s public curator, explained toAFP that he was hosting a conference about how the world would be perceived by children of the Eighties if they were similarly absorbed by social media and the cult of the celebrity.
“As we are having a ‘marathon’ conference inside the Stedelijk, we also wanted a reflection of that outside,” he said. “Nobody can do it better than Shia and the other artists at this performance.”
However, not so fast my friends! Although Shia’s Nike+ travelled 26.8 miles, it appears according to the museum’s Twitter feed that spectators could watch Shia run, run with him, or run FOR him, hmmmm!
Congrats to Shia’s Nike+ on completing the one-man ‘Metamarathon.’
Watch Shia running his ‘Metamarathon’ with a Fellow Runner Below:
In all seriousness, Shia got many people out there to be physically active in running a lap with him or for him. And that’s a great thing to espouse to help inspire others to take up a healthier lifestyle.
PS: Remember to tell the next person that asks about your jogging that you are a performer not a jogger.
Galen Rupp set a new USA record for the 10K at the Prefontaine Classic on Friday night on the track at Hayward Field at the University of Oregon. Rupp ran a staggering time of 26:44:36 for the 10,000 meter race.
The record setting time is the fastest by an American, the second fastest on American soil and the 15th fastest 10K of all-time.
The day started with news that Armstrong was stepping down as the chairman of Livestrong, the charity he created in the wake of his cancer survival and Tour de France success, to raise money to fight cancer.
“This organization, its mission and its supporters are incredibly dear to my heart,” the cancer survivor said in a statement. “Today therefore, to spare the foundation any negative effects as a result of controversy surrounding my cycling career, I will conclude my chairmanship.”
“Due to the seemingly insurmountable evidence that Lance Armstrong participated in doping and misled Nike for more than a decade, it is with great sadness that we have terminated our contract with him,” the company said in a statement. “Nike does not condone the use of illegal performance-enhancing drugs in any manner. Nike plans to continue support of the Livestrong initiatives created to unite, inspire and empower people affected by cancer.”
The sponsors are all jumping ship in wake of the insurmountable pile of evidence that Armstrong doped and cheating in winning his seven Tour de France championships.
Perhaps a better name would have been ‘The 27 Greatest Nike Shoes of All-Time and 23 Others.’
I don’t know if Nike owns Complex or if the Complex writers were simply trying to remember the 50 most popular pairs of shoes they saw their friends wearing through the halls of junior high school.
The #1 shoe on Complex’s list was the Nike Air Max 1 from 1987.
I’m no shoe snob and have only been running a decade or less so I don’t recognize most of these shoes, but in the past decade MANY really good shoes have been made that should have made this list.
Most runners agree that Nike makes horrible running shoes. I wore them for my very first marathon and could barely walk for two weeks afterwards. I haven’t even thought twice about lacing up a pair of them since.
However, those that I know who wear Nike running shoes are usually elite runners and they are often wearing the Nike Lunar Racer. The only shoe from the 2000’s that made this list.
Others I recognize on this list are the Nike Air Cortez (1972) which created a huge hoopla in the running community in the early 70’s, New Balance 991 (big boys wear), Nike Air Pegasus, and of course the Nike Air Max versions.
The list is laughable in the fact that a Reebok Insta Pump (#38) made the list.
What’s up with a shoe named after Mariah Carey (Nike Air Mariah PR #39) making the Top 50? Surely that’s not really named after Butterfly Carey is it? Although, she first made it big around that time.
What is your favorite running shoe of all-time? What do you think about this list?
