Of the 42,000 runners who killed themselves finished the New York City Marathon -- the world's largest -- this past Sunday, Bobby Stuckey, the master sommelier at Frasca Food & Wine in Boulder, placed 283rd with a time of 2:47:23. That's right: the guy who drinks, pours, studies and explains wine for a living kicked the butts of 41,717 fellow marathoners. Damn, that's good.
But while Stuckey clearly ran his ass off, averaging a 6:24 minute mile (and placing twelfth among Colorado runner