Q&A: He's trying to run world's fastest marathon — backward
BOSTON (AP) — Loren Zitomersky has gotten used to the jokes: "Hey, you're running the wrong way!"
Slamming straight into trees he didn't see behind him? Not so much. Also, ouch.
But the Disney movie production lawyer is on a singular quest to break the world record for the fastest marathon ever run backward. Zitomersky, 33, who's known on social media as "Backwards Guy ," hopes to accomplish the feat at next month's Boston Marathon to raise money and awareness for an epilepsy cure.
The Associated Press caught up with Zitomersky, who lives in Los Angeles, to find out what makes him tick.