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Kate, minus her 8, ran along the Las Vegas Strip |
She's famous for the reality television show
Jon and Kate Plus 8, and then
Kate Plus 8, that showed her raising a family of multiples. She's famous for the subsequent book deals and appearances that landed in her lap after becoming a reality TV star. She's famous for a shaggy, spiky haircut that was a popular Halloween costume one year. She's famous for dancing with Tony Dovolani on
Dancing with the Stars. And now
Kate Gosselin is hitting the headlines once again for running, and finishing, the
Zappos.com Rock 'n' Roll Las Vegas Marathon, a race that took over the Strip on Sunday night.
Her time? She finished her first 26.2-miler in 4:59:21, which rounds out to a pace of about 11:25 per mile. Not bad considering she looks half-frozen in the picture
People.com published and that a majority of the race was run after the sun went down.
But "killing it" as Gosselin was quoted in
People? I'm not so sure about that. She ran her first marathon faster than
Katie Holmes (5:29:58 at the New York City Marathon),
Ali Landry (5:41:41 at the Boston Marathon) and
Valerie Bertinelli (5:14:37 at the Boston Marathon). But she didn't beat
Oprah, who ran her first and only marathon in 1994, finishing with a time of 4:29:15, and there are plenty of other
famous women who've run faster, too. Yes, a marathon is commendable, but watch what you say in that post-race euphoric state especially when the race technically had a time cutoff of 4 hours and 30 minutes, and you finished 29 minutes beyond that. Just sayin'.