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Podcast: Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
Episode: Shizo Kanakuri Finished A Marathon He’d Started 54 Years Earlier
Description: Today in 1967, a Japanese athlete Shizo Kanakuri, finished a Olympic marathon that he’d started in 1912. Better late than never! Plus: a college student asks a professor a question and gets a reply long after graduation.
Better late than never for Japan's first, "slowest" Olympian (Japan Times)
Hannah Jung For all the people that think they are bad at responding to emails (Hannah Jung on Twitter via Bored Panda)
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