There are many reasons why Bill Arthur could quite legitimately take a break and have this Sunday's The Canberra Times Marathon off.
The 62-year-old is legally blind, with bilateral optic atrophy since birth, although after 51 marathons on six continents that has hardly been a barrier before.
In August 2011, his knee packed it in while preparing for a half marathon, and the response was a procedure where the bone in the leg is cut, straightened and has a plate put on it, transferring the weight from "the bad side to the good side", as he puts it. He has run two marathons since the six-month recovery.
But perhaps most impressively, Sunday's marathon - Mr Arthur's 18th - comes only two weeks after he completed the Antarctica marathon on King George Island in sub-zero conditions.
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Bill used to run with the speedygeese at Dickson.
