· Birmingham Hippodrome, Wed 26 to Sep 29 Rambert Dance Company Salford Rambert return to another marathon of high energy dance in a new work by Garry Stewart.
Being a single dad of three girls means tears, laughs, arguments, knots in hair, goofy selfies, misunderstandings, marathon "Monster High" watching and clothes.
But in New York it is possible to run the whole marathon without high-tech aid.
Perhaps he would have to go to a more remote area to find the next marathon star — higher, to 11,500 feet or 13,000 feet, where a promising barefoot teenager might live.
Conceiving of the athletes in a prologue as classical divine messengers, Riefenstahl's mythologising imagery - at its most lucidly effective in the marathon and high-diving sections - extended, uncomfortably for the Nazi's racist ideology - to the great American black athlete Jesse Owens.
Some of his other notable adventures include: the documentary film Go Death Racer where Simon and 3 other runners take on the Death Race, an ultra-marathon event high up in the Rockies and the Musandam Oman Expedition, where he hiked on foot through the daunting northern tip of Oman.
The conceit is that our host is a shambolic man, that he is, or would be, "shit" at everything – from sex tapes to marathons, from high-diving to parenthood.
Ed Keller, running a 6 14 marathon on a high school track in 89-degree heat.
When I look at a picture of him I've got hanging in the entryway of my home, crossing the line of his first marathon, arms thrust high in exhilaration, I don't think to myself, Oh that's the day he went 3 43?
