FTB: Can you run 90 km? One ex-NHL player can

It’s a beautiful summer day out (actually it’s not—it’s raining), and if you were doing some off-season hockey training you might be going for a run. If you are Daniel Sedin you might go for a 90km run.

Wait. 90km? Yes. That’s what he did a few days ago per this report in Expressen where he participated in an ultramarathon in Sweden.

“It felt good up to 70km, but then it was tough,” Sedin was quoted as saying about the race. Ah, yes, the first 70km is always the easy part!

For reference, 90km (that’s about 56 miles) will take you from King Street downtown Toronto north on Yonge Street (and that other Yonge Street we pretend is the same one, but it’s not) all the way to Barrie. Yes. Barry! That’s a distance which even driving would require more than two hours (although that accounts for Yonge Street traffic, which is brutal).

Sedin did this in just over nine hours, or 9:07.08 to be exact. Sedin is of course now retired, having turned 41 a few weeks ago and already in the Hall of Fame, I guess he is looking for new records to break. He noted that he was disappointed with his time as he really wanted to break nine hours. Good luck, Daniel. I’ll be watching, but definitely not trying that.

But, hey Daniel, if you’re out practicing and you pass Rasmus Sandin’s place, can you take a few seconds to tell him to sign a contract already?

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Here’s your guessing game for the day. I’ll let you in on who is player A, it’s Daniel Sedin! Who is player B? You’ll figure it out, but I dispute the fact that he won’t make it into the Hall of Fame. What do you think?