Comedian Eddy Izzard the new face of British Fitness? File Photo
It wasn't that all that long ago (September 17th) that British Comedian Eddie Izzard finished 43 marathons to run over 1000 miles around England...as you may recall from THIS story.
So what do you do to top 43 marathons?
You guessed it, the 47-year-old actor turned ultra runner, now has his eyes set on completing an Ironman.
"I have (become fascinated with fitness) because there's no point in throwing away all that training. Swimming is really good upper-body (training) so I've been taking lessons. They teach you how to swim properly and that's great. I just want to keep up and get more healthy. Peak fitness at 90 - that's my idea!" Izzard recently said.
"I've just started up swimming because I want to do Ironman now. It's where you swim for five kilometres, then cycle for 180 kilometres and then you run a marathon after that - all in one go," he added.
It may seem strange that a cross dressing British comedian has become the face of fitness in Great Britain, but Izzard says that since we'll all live to 100 we better be fit.
"We've got the Olympics less than a thousand days ahead and I want to encourage people to take something they used to do when they were a kid and start doing it again. We're all living to about 100 now - unless you want the last 30 years of your life to be going really downhill, get healthy, get fit. Then we can encourage our athletes going into the Olympics to be able to have the fittest country (supporting them)," he added.
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I was not at all surprised to read Eddie's latest physical challenge. In a way, it makes perfect sense, and with his steely-disciplined personality, he'll be successful with this as well. Go Eddie!
Eddie Izzard - Hero, visionary, secular saint. I adore this man.
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