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“To be completely honest, I despise running, HATE IT! Competing in these insane 100-mile running races all weekend long and all the training that goes with it is utter torture,” said ultra-marathoner Marc Skednick of Philadelphia as he applied super glue to a heel blister the size of a plum. “That said, I continue to do it because I hate spending time with my family a thousand times more than competing in this ridiculous sport.”

“My strict training method consists of running about 20-to-30 miles a day in preparation for my weekend races that take place twice a month. As you can see it doesn’t allow much time for me to spend with my nagging wife or bratty kids. … actually, it leaves absolutely no face time for me and my family. I’m really not sure what the 12-year-old looks like now. Or is she 14? Not sure, anyway, gotta motor…” Skednick finishes tending to his wound, slowly gets up and continues his daily run as the clock strikes 10:45pm.

The 6-foot-1, 135-pound Skednick runs for a few hours before and after work and usually eats all his meals while running. In keeping with his family-shunning ways, Skednick makes sure to take off his Bluetooth before a run just in case a family member might want to get in touch. “I pretend to need ‘total concentration’ while running, so I ask my family not to call me.”

When asked if he misses seeing his daddy, Skednick’s 10-year-old son quickly responds “Do you want to play Guitar Hero? Or go kill some ants?” before he darts into the other room to punch his sister in the back of her head.

His wife Nancy puts her husband’s hobby into perspective, “It keeps him happy. He sure seems to love it!”

The long-long-distance runner describes his upcoming 135-mile event, “Like most of the races, this one is in the desert, about a million degrees. I usually puke on average about ten times a day from dehydration and exhaustion but that doesn’t deter me, not even the hallucinations can stop me. It’s sooooo much better than watching dance recitals and soccer games.”

“I’m motivated by that ‘Not-seeing-my-family-high’ that many runners get after logging in a few miles on the pavement. It makes all the leg cramps, eroded cartilage, third-degree sunburn, pants crapping, and the intense stabbing pain that jets up through my spine every time I begin to move my feet all worth it.”

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Favieri, an avid football and NASCAR fan, completed watching his first televised triathlon only 3 months after getting a clean bill of health from his doctor.

“I took it slow at first, only watching the swimming part for a few minutes then I’d turn it off and take a nap. I’d then watch another triathlon and try to make it through the bike leg,” Favieri said as he adjusted his flannel pajama bottoms and propped another couch cushion behind his head.

“My friends thought I was crazy. I mean, this isn’t fun stuff and takes a lot of determination and focus. It was pretty exhausting, plus, knowing that you are only one of a select few doing this makes it even harder. But I persevered and started getting into it and understanding the mentality it takes to finish. I got in the zone and started enjoying it. It must be like one of those ‘runner’s high’ I’ve heard about. Really awesome!”

Defying the naysayers made this personal triumph even sweeter for Favieri. “Two years ago, my doctors thought I was a goner, but I beat cancer and proved them wrong. I took that defiance and never-say-die attitude into the basement with me when I started training. A lot of my pals thought there was no way I could watch an entire triathlon without flipping on something else and getting distracted, especially with all those Real World marathons on at the same time. It was tough; I love when those kids scream at each other and eat bugs and stuff.”

On a late August Saturday afternoon with temperatures at a cool 74 degrees (air conditioning setting), Favieri completed his viewing in just under three hours and even watched all the commercials. “The commercials were tedious and I almost bailed, but you gotta be a 100% committed, or just don’t do it at all.” He then cooled down by watching an hour-long Bowflex infomercial.

Now realizing the world has much more to offer than the same sports he watched for hours on end, Smith now changes the channels with an open mind and stops on such exotic fare as Tour De France, indoor lacrosse and women’s 9-ball billiards. “You really learn a lot about yourself when you expand your horizons and your TiVo programming choices.”

Taking advantage of his new lease on life, Favieri now gets up at 8:45 a.m. every morning – an entire 45 minutes earlier before the cancer diagnosis – to get in some viewing practice before he starts the day.

Asked if he’d attempt another one soon, Favieri replied, “Definitely, I think I’m getting addicted. But I am hoping there is some sort of ‘fantasy triathlon league’ online, you know, to add some extra interest.”

Favieri takes a moment to reflect.

“I just don’t want to live my life saying ‘I wish I watched this or I wish I watched that,’” the cancer-survivor relates as he wipes a tear from his eyes and opens another can of beer.

“There’s a great big world out there for me to experience. On TV.”

Jeff Lyons
Education Reporter

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