Go Team Zombie!

Who wins marathon?  Skinny white guys and Kenyans, right?  Usually, it's no surprise who ends up winning a marathon—you know it will be one of the 20 or so "elites" who get to line up at the front and who generally get paid just to show up.

Well, at the San Francisco Marathon this past weekend, a runner by the name of Keith Bechtol won the race.  Why is this important?  Look at his bib number:

Yes, that's 30,811!  This guy was not an elite, and in fact, he started 3 minutes after the elites started!  Meaning, of course, the elites had a 3 minute head start, and Bechtol still beat them 2 minutes!  And, all of this in Team Zombie t-shirt!

As it turns out, this was also Bechtol's first marathon (he has done a lot of other running, though).  All I have to say is that there's hope for me to get my 3:45 this year!