Burgerman Will Run the Boston Marathon in a Burger Suit for Charity

Posted by Robyn Lee, March 9, 2010 at 4:00 PM

If you want to stand out from the crowd of marathon runners raising money for charity, you have to kick it up a notch. Such as by running a marathon in a burger suit.

22-year-old Sam Novey, aka Burgerman, aims to raise $100,000 for nonprofit afterschool program Citizen Schools by running the Boston Marathon (April 19) in a custom-made burger suit. For the next six weeks, you can join him on his burger suited practice runs around Cambridge on Saturday mornings by meeting up at local burger chain b.good at 24 Dunster Street at 11 a.m. Your reward at the end of the run: a free burger from b.good!

Citizen Schools brings in community members, businesses, and college students to teach middle schoolers real life and job skills (last year, for instance, Sam taught a section on how to run a presidential campaign). Sam's $100,000 would help expand the program into 20 additional classrooms. You can donate online at firstgiving.com.

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Tags: b.good, Boston, Burgerman, events, Massachusetts

5 Comments:

Great cause and awesome suit!

But I'd pass on the reward: b. good "burgers" are by far the worst burgers I've ever had in my life. Worse than McDonald's, worse than frozen microwave burgers from 7-11 - really really atrocious. Can't say enough bad things about them. Ugh.

J. Kenji Lopez-Alt at 5:47PM on 03/09/10

And sorry... don't mean to be a hater. But there are some things I can't help hating, and bad burgers are one of them.

J. Kenji Lopez-Alt at 5:51PM on 03/09/10

burger suit! awesome! wonder if he has a goal time for the 26.2.....

hmgreen616 at 5:54PM on 03/09/10

He needs a theme song....

chanterelle at 9:48PM on 03/09/10

Whats up with letting the American Flag hit the ground?

nhfoodie at 3:27PM on 03/11/10

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