Who is Dane Rauschenberg?

2008-06-22T12:36:00.000-07:00

"Both knowledge and experience, when not shared, are wasted."

-Dane Rauschenberg

At 34, Dane Rauschenberg is an extreme athlete who successively ran a certified marathon every weekend in 2006. Dane's effort was part of a fund-raising effort titled "Fiddy2", which benefited the Mobile, Alabama chapter of L'Arche Internationale .

Dane raised over $44,000 for L'Arche Mobile, all while working in a patent licensing firm in the greater Washington, D.C. area. Contrary to most who predicted he would slow with time, Dane ran his fastest marathon of the year in his 42nd race- a 2:59 in Niagara Falls, Canada.

Since that time, Dane has quickly become a sought-after motivational speaker for not only marathons and races of all distances, but also for corporations and businesses nationwide looking for a spark!

His speeches cover details such as:

• The impetus behind the idea to run 52 weekly marathon.
• Anecdotes from his running career around the globe.
• The importance of physical fitness in every aspect of our lives.
• Always striving to be a better person.

His goal is to inspire people to give their all, regardless of what their "all" may be. More than just a speech about running, Dane's talks are the get-up-and-go, kick-in-the-pants speeches which come from the heart. Dane helps people realize that without effort, nothing will happen. But with the right attitude, there are few things to stand in your way.

Whether it is to improve as an athlete, do better at your occupation or excel as parent, sibling or friend, Dane provides inspiration to take those first steps and take matters into your own hands!

It is easy to see why his speeches have been successful nationwide, as Dane has:
• Run the 202 mile American Odyssey Relay - by himself- in just over 50 hours!

• Won and set the course record at the 2010 Iron Horse 50 Mile race by 50 minutes.

• Won the 2009 Sawtooth Relay (solo division) - running 62 miles and beating all solo runners as well as 70 of the nearly 300 six-person teams!

• Took 10th Place overall in his first ever USATF National Championship race (50k) March 1st, 2009.

• Won the Inaugural Little Grand Canyon Marathon on Sept. 19th, 2008 by FIVE Minutes!

• Won the Inaugural Drake Well Marathon (December 23, 2006) - where twenty participants ran 105.5 times around a high school track in Titusville, Pennsylvania. Dane also served as the race director for this race to keep his 52 marathon streak alive, as no other marathon existed on this date.

• Won the PT Cruiser Challenge (February 5-6, 2005) - an event consisting of a 15k, 5k and marathon all in 24 hours in Tampa, Florida.

• Ran 52 consecutive weekly marathons in 2006 with an average time of 3:21.

• Owns the farthest distance ever run (84 miles!) at the Presque Isle Endurance Classic (October 18, 2003) - a 12 hour event in Erie, Pennsylvania.

• Run 138 lifetime marathons with a personal best of 2:49:36 run at the Ogden Marathon on 05.16.09.

These accomplishments follow a solid but far from stellar high school track career which only encompassed two seasons. Dane has often said:

"If you picked 10 guys from my track team who would have done something unusual and unprecedented in the running world, I would have been 12th...we had a really good mascot."

Dane's Awards and Recognition

• 50 States & D.C. Marathon Group U.S.A. HUMANITARIAN AWARD 2009

• Invited to be the Charity Chaser for the 2010 Mississippi Blues Marathon on January 9th, 2010. Dane passed all but 16 runners in the marathon running a sub-3 hour marathon just one day before running another marathon in Mobile, AL (where he helped the women's leader to victory!)

• Invited to be the Charity Chaser for the 2009 Pittsburgh Marathon on May 3rd, 2009. Dane passed all but 161 runners (marathon, half-marathon and 4-person relay) of over a possible 9,500 participants raising nearly $46,000 for the Pittsburgh Promise.

• Invited to be the Charity Chaser for the 2008 Under Armour Baltimore Marathon on October 11th, 2008. Dane passed all but 99 runners (both marathon and relay) of a possible 5,887 participants raising nearly $12,000 for the United Way.

• Invited as a solo runner to MBC Hangang Marathon in Seoul, Korea on April 27, 2008. Dane made this his 4th marathon in 13 days and posted a 2:56 time.

• Ran the Boston Marathon course twice in one day on April 21, 2008, joining race director Dave McGillivray in running the course mere hours after completing the fabled race in a time of 3:01.

• Selected by Metro Sports DC as its Athlete of the Month for its July 2007 issue.

• Invited to the Dalian International Marathon in Dalian, China on June 17, 2007 by the Li-Ning running shoe company as its special guest.

• Chosen as the first person ever to be featured in a Road ID advertisement (July 2007 -Runner's World.)

• Frederick Marathon’s first ever "Charity Chaser" where he began dead last and received a dollar amount for every runner he passed during the race to benefit the united Way of Frederick and L’Arche Mobile. He passed 1572 of a possible 1600 runners.

• One of four runners chosen to represent The 50 States Marathon Club at the MBC Hangang Marathon in Seoul, Korea on April 29, 2007.

• Selected co-Male Runner of the Year by the Washington Running Club for 2006.

• One of MarathonGuide.com’s Outstanding USA Marathoners of the Year – 2006

• Only male member of Team Tiara, the charity running leg of Girls on the Run International for his work at the Shamrock Marathon in 2006.

and much more!

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Extreme Athlete / Author / Speaker

Who is Dane Rauschenberg?