OKLAHOMA CITY ( KFOR ) — Over the past several months, Greg Gerardy has been chronicling his training sessions with a small video camera.
He’s carried it along with him to marathon races in Kansas City, then the very next day in Iowa, for family get togethers and even doctor appointments.
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The diary is just a small part of his presentation for a physical challenge no one like him has ever accomplished.
He says, “It’s the chance of a lifetime. It’s a dream adventure.”
We first met Greg in 2022 , as he prepared for the Oklahoma Memorial Marathon.
He told us, then, about what he thought was a pinched nerve in his neck 20 years previously that turned out to be a huge, cancerous tumor wrapped around his shoulder and spine.
“It went down into my thoracic cavity,” he said.
A series of surgeries took muscle from his shoulder and chest as well as his right lung.
“I kind of slipped into a black hole there,” he recalls.