{"id":468453,"date":"2026-10-17T03:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T03:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/468453\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T03:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T03:30:09","slug":"50-marathons-in-24-days-athlete-makes-stop-in-fort-worth-on-journey-to-break-world-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/468453\/","title":{"rendered":"50 marathons in 24 days: Athlete makes stop in Fort Worth on journey to break world record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/rvutk5c4icqjjx6k.jpg\" alt=\"Athlete supports cancer research in U.S. marathon challenge \" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\"\/>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/rvutk5c4icqjjx6k.jpg\" alt=\"Athlete supports cancer research in U.S. marathon challenge \" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"vod-poster-image vod-poster-image--embedded\" data-v-fab1b86c=\"\"\/>     <\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">FORT WORTH, Texas &#8211; A British athlete is taking on 50 marathons in 50 states in just 24 days to raise money for cancer awareness.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">Will Goodge ran marathon number 14 in Fort Worth on Friday. His journey is taking him across the nation, and he will be braving the elements for each race.<\/p>\n<p>William Goodge is trying to break a world record by running 50 marathons in 24 days.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">He says he was inspired to meet the challenge after losing his mom and felt he needed to find a way to channel his loss.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">&#8220;As soon as I started raising money for cancer charities, I was like, OK, so running is helping me, but it&#8217;s also helping people like my mom who are dealing with cancer and also their friends and immediate family,&#8221; Goodge said.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">Big picture view:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">Goodge says he hopes his journey will inspire others to turn negative experiences into positive change.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this article was reported by Fox 4&#8217;s Steven Dial.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/tarrant-county\/fort-worth\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fort Worth<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT WORTH, Texas &#8211; A British athlete is taking on 50 marathons in 50 states in just 24&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,223,122,216,393],"class_list":["post-468453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-news","tag-tarrant-county","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}