Frederic Zimer

A 53 year-old CEO who once told his employees that running a marathon was nothing but a matter of strength of mind. So for Frederic's 50th birthday they registered him for the Paris marathon despite it being 20 years since Frederic had done any sport. He lost twenty kilos in twenty weeks during his training for the event. He then decided to run fifty half-marathons in fifty months in fifty different countries, and a marathon on each continent. To date, he has run thirty half-marathons and Ice Marathon will be his sixth marathon before completing his challenge in Sydney, in September of 2011.