Career
He is sometimes called the "Running God" or "Pheidippides Successor". He holds many men"s outdoor road world records from 100 to 1,000 miles and many road and track records from 12 hours to 6 days. In 1991, he starred as Pheidippides in the movie The Story of the Marathon: A Hero"s Journey, which chronicles the history of marathon running.
He beat the previous record held by Cliff Young.
Kouros says that his secret is that "when other people get tired, they stop. I Director of Nursing"T. I take over my body with my mind.
I tell it that it"s not tired and it listens."
Kouros has also written over 1,000 poems (several of which appear in his book Symblegmata (Clusters)) and the book The Six-Day Run of the Century. According to the International Association of Ultrarunners, as of February 2013.
Distance
Time races.
