Technically, it was a Marathon and Ryan Reynolds completed it. It was the ING New York City Marathon that was held on Sunday.
“I’m still standing. I’m very excited about that,” he told reporters after crossing the finish line in 3 hours and 50 minutes, which was faster than he hoped for. “It was an incredible experience.”
Reynolds said that in the last leg of the race he was motivated to keep going by one special spectator.
“When I saw Michael J. Fox on Fifth Avenue, I gained about 15 pounds in goose bumps,” remarked Reynolds. “It kind of pushed me through the last six miles or so.”
“During the race I thought a lot about my father and Michael and the 500,000 other people afflicted with this awful disease in the United States alone. I’m ran for those who can’t,” Reynolds disclosed.
Reynolds’s mom,Tammy, and brother Terry greeted him with warm embraces at the finish line in Central Park.
Last Friday, he told reporters that his wife, Scarlett Johansson, would be cheering “on the road somewhere.”
Asked how Reynolds planned to celebrate his feat, he jokingly retorted, “I’ll probably celebrate by eating my own body weight in raw dough.”