Dane Rauschenberg

A documentary entitled "No Handoffs" was made about the effort and successfully funded by Kickstarter in 2014.

In 2012, Rauschenberg ran the length of the Oregon Coast, 350 miles, from the border of California to the border of Washington state in seven days. Rauschenberg spent an entire week running the full length of the Oregon coast averaging about 50 miles a day. Stopping at four coastal high schools along the way, and returning to Portland on April 9 to visit a fifth high school, Rauschenberg's mission was to send a healthy message to kids.

In 2010, Rauschenberg ran the American Odyssey Relay, usually a 12 (or 6) person relay covering the 202 miles (325 km) from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania to Washington, D.C., in the time of 50 hours and 16 minutes by himself.

In 2007, Rauschenberg switched his career to race organizing and as a motivational speaker discussing his 52-marathon experience and offering suggestions about running as an aspect of a healthy lifestyle.

Leading up to Rauschenberg's 2006 effort, he ran a few marathons, qualifying for and running the Boston Marathon. Rauschenberg's first marathon was the Harrisburg Marathon in 2001, which he finished in a time of 4:12:07, 159th overall of 281 finishers. Rauschenberg also ran the 2004 Marine Corps Marathon in 3:31:13, in 685th place.

Before 2006, some runners tried to see how many marathons they could run on consecutive weekends. For example, Richard Worley had run a marathon on each of 159 consecutive weekends. Others attempted to see how many different marathons could be completed within a single calendar year, with some runners reaching 90. However, his enterprise competed for public attention with at least three other contemporaneous efforts, two of which involved running 50 marathons on 50 consecutive days.

Fiddy2 was one of at least four charity fundraising projects in 2006 that involved a runner running 50 or more marathons during that year. Rauschenberg ran his 52 consecutive weekly marathons in 2006 with an average time of 3:21:16. In recognition of Rauschenberg's efforts, he was named by the marathonguide.com website (a marathon reference website) as one of the 20 outstanding USA marathon runners for 2006, as part of an effort to recognize those individuals whose participation in multiple marathons "show that marathoning is and can be part of one's regular routine." The 52nd and final race was run on December 31, 2006, with $32,000 raised at that time.

Rauschenberg was born in Titusville, Pennsylvania where he held numerous records as a high school swimmer. While earning varsity letters in track and field, running was not what he saw himself competing in. After attempting to walk onto Penn State University football team, Rauschenberg played rugby for two years before graduating in 1998. He then attended law school at Penn State Dickinson Law where he began running to get into shape after putting on weight after college. After law school, and during a clerkship in Erie, PA, Rauschenberg began running more. What would be a precursor to his long-distance athletic prowess, but was lost on Rauschenberg at the time was his winning the Presque Isle Endurance Classic - a 12 hour run where Dane amassed 84 miles.

Dane Rauschenberg (born May 31, 1976) is an American long-distance runner, author and attorney who ran 52 marathons, one every weekend, throughout 2006. He raised over $43,000 for charity, as part of an effort he called "Fiddy2".