French athlete runs 3:25 marathon, backward

April 24, 2023

On Sunday at the 2023 Drôme Marathon in Saint-Paul-lès-Romans, France, Guillaume de Lustrac came through on a bet he made with a friend: to finish a marathon, running backward. De Lustrac did not only run Drôme Marathon backward, but he did it in a ridiculously fast time of 3:25:24, placing 19th overall among 103 participants and breaking the Guinness World Record. Canadian Running