Christoph Niemann Live Tweets Drawings While Running New City York Marathon

Mile 17.3: Readers, if one of you has a banana, pls meet me on NW corner of 125th and 1st ave. I am at 80th now.

Mile 23.8: Hallucinating.

I made it!

Mile 26.1: Finished.

The New York Times cartoonist Christoph Niemann not only ran the 2011 New York City Marathon but live-tweeted his on-the-fly drawings of the entire experience. Towards the end of the race, he had to create a new Twitter account because he was apparently over-posting on his original account. His accounts @abstractsunday and @abstractsunday1 house all of his race illustrations.

On November 6 I will attempt to live-draw the New York City Marathon. How will I finish the race? Curled up on the sidewalk in Park Slope? In an oxygen tent on First Avenue? Or actually in Central Park? Before sunset?

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photos and image via Christoph Niemann