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CNN's Wilkinson Tweets the London Marathon

by Jordan Yerman | April 26, 2009 at 02:01 pm

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Peter Wilkinson, a cnn.com digital news producer, ran the London Marathon while constantly updating his status on Twitter. At first, he had a spotter with him so he wouldn't run into any people or stationary objects has he ran and tweeted.

Wilkinson's time wasn't bad (3 hrs, 30 min), but surey would have been better if he wasn't fiddling with a mobile phone as he ran.

But he completed the race mostly without mishap -- apart from risking damage to his phone by "tweeting" as he ran through a shower to cool off.

"I don't feel too bad, it was a lot easier than I thought because I'm so used to texting," Wilkinson told CNN. "I didn't run into anyone."

For me, though, the most surprising part of the story is Wilkinson's get-pumped-up-ro-run-a-marathon music: The Cure!

Wilkinson said his spirits had been raised in the final miles by hearing a band playing a cover version of "A Forest" by the Cure, the music fan's favorite band.

When Robert Smith finds out, he'll be psyched. I sure would be.