Marathon Runner Hit By Lightning

Scottish super-hunks The Proclaimers once boasted that they’d walk 500 miles, and then 500 more, just to fall into a door or something.
Well the twin pair of tartan-clad teen heartthrobs have got nothing on marathon runner Adam Campbell, who not only “ran” 100 miles (walking – pah!) through the American desert at the height of summer – but was also struck in the head by lightning as he did it. And he barely broke stride.
Nut job Campbell was competing at the Hardrock 100 ultramarathon at the time, a frankly insane event that sees competitors running for around 24-hours straight.
Incredibly, Campbell managed to complete the course after he and a pacer were caught in the thunderstorm beyond the 60-mile aid station.
Just as the pair approached the highest point of the 100.5-mile course around Handies Peak, he was struck by lightning. Remarkably, he kept on running.
The lunatic went on to finish in 25 hours, 56 minutes, and 36 seconds – around 49 minutes behind second place.
“Wow, that was a hard race,” he understated after the run. “That course is legit – even without the lightning.”
Seeing as BBM can’t even be arsed to do the City to Surf marathon, we tip our hat to Campbell – who, according to the movies, should have been blessed with some kind of superpower after the lightning strike. If only there’d been a nuclear explosion – he’d definitely have turned into the Flash.
“There’s nothing up there, no place to hide, no rocks, no trees, nothing,” a slightly scorched Campbell added. “We really didn’t have much of a choice. We wanted to get over the peak as soon as we could and get out of there.”