Ricardo Abad

Ricardo Abad Martínez is a Spanish ultrarunner, born on 8 January 1971, who holds the world record for consecutive marathons run on consecutive days, 607. He is best known for the project 500 marathons in 500 days, which he began on 1 October 2010 and finished on 12 February 2012, running at least one marathon in each of the 50 provinces of Spain. He sold each of the 21,000 km he ran for one euro and donated the money to ANFAS, a Spanish organization that supports people with intellectual disabilities. He broke the world record for consecutive marathons, 366, on 1 October 2011 in Madrid, taking it from the Belgian Stefaan Engels, who had held it with 365; before that Abad had himself held the record with 150 in a row in 2009.