This goo was worth a point in December 2022.

publication date: Saturday, December 24, 2022 (part of December 2022)

category: Sports

clue: The world's best marathon runner (with the world records to prove it) has run enough marathons to stretch from Boston to New York many times over.

intended difficulty: easy

do-over: This was a "do-over" goo, inspired by incorrect guesses for a previous goo.

solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, LaVonne Lemler, Samir Mehta, and Richard Slominsky

trivia: This was a do-over goo, inspired by incorrect guesses for the goo of Evans Chebet.


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