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Matthew Inman is the best-selling author and cartoonist behind TheOatmeal.com. The above is an excerpt from his latest book, The Terrible and Wonderful Reasons Why I Run Long Distances.To celebrate its release, he created a marathon.
Mark Remy interviewed Inman about the origins of all this running – and other super-important topics like whether he'd ever pooped himself mid-race – in this Remy's World interview, posted last fall.
