Don Kern

Don Kern is an adventure runner, IT Consultant, freelance writer, and the director of the Metro Health Grand Rapids Marathon.

[1] He has run 329 marathons or longer races, in each of fifty states of the USA three times, in thirty-two countries, and at the North Pole.

He managed to fly to Los Angeles, Calif., and found a red-eye that landed him in Orlando, Fla., the morning he would be running in Cocoa.

Despite showing up for the race about 30 minutes late, Kern was able to continue his pursuit of the record, which would be his when he finished the Antarctic Ice Marathon on Dec.

It featured a 4.4-mile loop that needed to be completed six times for a full marathon, a nod to the 1993 movie "Groundhog Day.