Behind the scene
Published on 12.07.2011 - General Info
tv show in atlanta
© Farmer's website
Pat Farmer starts slowly to be tired ; for the first time since the beginning of his run, he shows how his van team is taking care of him.
If you want to get an indigestion and to realize how the american daily food is like, no problem, simply pay a visit to this Farmer's vid and once for all you'll get sick of the american hamburgers.
We still do not know when this vid has been taken. But one sees Farmer making a short stopover in a local restaurant the 'Mac's speed chop' : there, a waiter shows how he prepares the local speciality, 'the fatboy'. The more he adds films of greecy meat, cheese, ketchup, mayonnaise, saucisses, pickels, all kinds of horrible sauces and salads, the more your stomac gets tossed. At the end, local waitress says that if you can eat it all by yourself, you'll get the fatboy for free ! Even the marathon runner could not finish it (but he got it for free anyhow...).
the fatboy
© Pat Farmer's website
It's now more than fifty days that Farmer is on the bitumen.
With a daily average of 80 kms, he should totalizes so far about 4000 km. So, no wonder he starts to feel the pain in his feet as well as in his all body. To thwart these sufferings, he has a team behind him ; sometimes he passes an hour or so in an oxygene tent, sometimes he takes off his shoes and gets a hot bath in the van. "I start to suffer from my tendons", he said one day, "and I have to be careful not to to push my luck and exaggerate my daily distances..."
And finally, Farmer does not forget of course to communicate. In this vid ('You too can dress like a champion'), he invites his followers to visit the website on which he puts replicas of his polar clothes for sale!
