As her 45th birthday approached,
Teri Hatcher wasn't worried about getting older. Instead, the "
Desperate Housewives" star was busy training for a triathlon.
In the February issue of
Prevention, Hatcher opens up about marking her milestone by completing the
Nautica Malibu Triathlon and finishing in a rather impressive 2 hours and 11 minutes.
The actress, best known for her quirky and often-times air-headed character Susan, didn't just compete in the race for herself -- she raised over $18,000 for the
Children's Hospital Los Angeles.
After training for months and successfully completing the half-mile ocean swim, 18-mile bike ride and four mile run, Hatcher posted on her fundraising site, "I'm still standing , yeah yeah yeah. :) What a great experience I had doing my first official
triathlon. I am proud and grateful and humbled by all the efforts put forth by the thousands of contestants and spectators."
After training for the triathlon with daily 50-mile bike rides, swimming in her backyard pool and lifting free weights, Hatcher tells Prevention she wasn't feeling too competitive by the time the race rolled around. "I wasn't really in a race against anything but my own will: Would I make it without stopping, without walking, without stopping to pee: My goal was not to do any of those things, and I didn't!"
With the triathlon behind her, Hatcher now keeps her slim figure in shape with Pilates, lunges, squats, and biceps curls.
Hatcher is not the only Hollywood star who has laced up her shoes and gone the distance lately. Mario Lopez also completed the Malibu triathlon, Anthony Edwards, Alanis Morissette and
Ed Norton crossed the finish line at the New York City Marathon this year, and a host of others ran the
London Marathon. And who can forget Jennifer Lopez when she completed the Malibu triathlon last year?
Perhaps we're seeing a new and healthier trend among
celebrities who are taking it to the streets to embrace their athletic side. No matter how you look at it, it's refreshing to see the spotlight turn towards those who are treating their bodies the right way. And the fact that they kick some butt while doing so is even better!
Click on the gallery below to see celebrities who have competed in marathons.
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Stars Who've Run a Marathon
Sean Combs
P. Diddy, Puff Daddy, or whatever it is you want to call him these days crossed the NYC Marathon finish line in 2003 with a time of 4 hours, 14 minutes, 54 seconds. More impressively, he raised two million dollars for NYC schools in the process.
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Sean Combs
P. Diddy, Puff Daddy, or whatever it is you want to call him these days crossed the NYC Marathon finish line in 2003 with a time of 4 hours, 14 minutes, 54 seconds. More impressively, he raised two million dollars for NYC schools in the process.
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Katie Holmes
Katie completed the NYC marathon in 2007 with a time of 5 hours, 29 minutes, 58 seconds (we're betting that the next time she does one, she finds a slightly more supportive sports bra). And she was in heels for a party that night.
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George W. Bush
President Bush did the Houston Marathon in 1993, finishing with a very respectable time: 3 hours, 44 minutes, 52 seconds. No wonder he was successful in running for office. Get it?
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Oprah Winfrey
Oprah completed the Marine Corps Marathon in 4 hours, 29 minutes, 20 seconds as a special gift to herself for her 40th birthday. The race suddenly went from a small, somewhat unknown race to the marathon that everybody wanted to do.
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Freddie Prinze, Jr.
Here's a little something to chew on: Had Freddie and Oprah run the same race, she would have won by almost an hour and a half. Freddie completed the 2006 Los Angeles Marathon in 5 hours, 50 minutes, and 49 seconds. Would he go faster for a Scooby Snack, you think?
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Will Ferrell
While other "real" runners have certainly finished faster, Will Ferrell comes in near the top in this group with a time of 3 hours, 56 minutes, 12 seconds in the 2003 Boston Marathon. Who would've guessed? Frank the Tank didn't look all that speedy in "Old School."
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Lance Armstrong
The cyclist traded his wheels for running shoes and has completed two NYC Marathons and a Boston. His time for the 2007 NYC Marathon was an impressive 2 hours, 46 minutes, 43 seconds. But then again, nobody exactly expected him to be slow, right?
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Mario Lopez
As fit as this macho man is, you'd expect a seriously competitive time, right? But his Boston Marathon, 2003, finish was 5 hours, 41 minutes, 41 seconds. He says he was staying behind to run with the girl he was dating. Sure, we believe that.
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Ryan Reynolds
The wickedly hot funny man risked bloody nipples (his words, not ours) to compete in the 2008 NYC Marathon. He wanted to raise money for Parkinson's disease, which his father suffers from. He succeeded -- he raised plenty of funds and awareness, plus crossed the finish in 3 hours, 50 minutes, 22 seconds.
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Gordon Ramsey
He's better known for his skills in the kitchen, as well as for his foul temper (and language), but it turns out that Gordon Ramsey is quite the runner, too. He's competed in the London Marathon for many years, and holds an impressive pace -- it took him just 3 hourse, 46 minutes, 10 seconds to finish in 2006.
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