USA Today – Sports Business

by Michael Hiestand
Miles of hype: Jerry Dunn has run lots of marathons. In 2000 he ran 200 by entering actual races or running established courses. Now he’s running 26.2 miles — the marathon distance — every day for 20 consecutive days. But this time he’s creating his own routes based on a marketing objective: He’s [...]

Colorado Springs Gazette

by RICH LADEN – THE GAZETTE – Gazette.com – Colorado Springs, Co.
How far will a business go to promote its product? Try 26.2 miles. Each day. For 26 straight days. It’s the sort of marketing stunt for which a public relations firm probably will receive a bonus. The maker of Accelerade, a powdered sports drink, [...]

Marathoner Runs 200 In 2000

By Sal Ruibal, USA TODAY
When Pheidippides finished the original marathon run in 490 B.C., the Athenian soldier exclaimed, “Victory is ours,” then collapsed and died.
When Jerry Dunn finished the Tampa Hops Marathon on Sunday — his 200th marathon-length run of the year — he exclaimed, “Thank God and thank Endurox!”
Perhaps if Pheidippides had a recovery-drink [...]

Sunday’s Hops Marathon by the Bay will be the 200th such run this year for Jerry Dunn.

by Pete Young. – St. Petersburg Times online version
“Run, Dunn, Run” proclaimed Monday’s headline on the front page of the St. Petersburg Times.
And run he has – like Forrest Gump.
Every day for the past eight days, he has run the Hops Marathon by the Bay course, the full 26.2 miles. He’ll do it again today. [...]

Making Countless Steps In The Right Direction

By DAN MANGAN – from the New York Post online version NYPOST.COM
When Jerry Dunn crossed the finish line yesterday it was 4,663.6 miles down and only 576 more to go. For this year, at least. Dunn, who calls himself “America’s Marathon Man,” did eight 26.2-mile runs in Central Park in the days leading up to [...]

26 Miles Every Day

from the Men’s Fitness magazine – COOLDOWN feature
Running nearly 200 marathons has helped this former drug abuser stay on the road of sobriety
Somewhere beyond the permeable scrim of sanity that most of us breach only temporarily resides Jerry Dunn, modern-day Sisyphus. This year, Dunn will roll the rock of endurance through 200 marathons, nearly doubling [...]