Edward Norton, star of Fight Club and The Incredible Hulk has laced up his shoes and he’s ready to run the upcoming New York City Marathon.  He decided to train for the marathon in order to raise money for the Massai Wildnerness Conservation Trust, an organization he discovered 10 years ago while doing work in Kenya. He has even done some training with Maasai tribesmen who are the Kenyan long-distance superstars.  He now has a 30 person team (including David Blaine, Alanis Morrisette and Maasai warriors) ready for the marathon and they’ll all be raising money to support the cause.

Norton started training in June and he has slowly increased his weekly mileage in preparation for the event.  He has suffered from shin splints and IT band pain but overall he’s had great success.   He said there are,

“moments where it’s hard to believe you’re going to reach the next five-mile increment.  And when I ran 21 miles, I felt pretty good about that.”

Norton trained in Kenya with the tribesmen for three weeks and now his new buddies are in New York and he has taken them running through the park and they’ve also attended some yoga classes.

So far Norton has raised $140,942 and he’s being sponsored by Puma and Garmin.  For further updates check out his twitters and tweets as he is giving daily updates.

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