

Leggers, a Santa Monica-based running club. I used Marathon by Jeff Galloway, Marathon Training by Joe Henderson, and the 2002-2003 Training Guide published by the L.A. Did you refer to any real guidebooks to get ideas of what he might find in there?
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When we see Marshall training for the race, he’s reading a guidebook called How to Run a Marathon. (Editor's note: The Metropolitan Transportation Authority says finishers are not allowed to ride for free, while two runners told Runner's World they were waved through to board subways without paying postrace as recently as last year.) Was that ever the case? Did we just make that up? If that was never the case, somebody came in and pitched that idea very convincingly. I hate to break it to you but New York City Marathon finishers don’t actually get to ride the subway for free.
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Someone else brought to the staff the idea that when you compete in the marathon you can ride the subway for free all day.

I had spoken to some friends who had competed in the New York City Marathon, and maybe that’s where I got the info about the chip where you can track your friends’ progress. So where did you get the specific details about marathoning you used to write the episode? Is that because you wrote the episode in Vegas? It’s tough for me to remember the exact moment that story was born. Was it one of those staffers who came up with the idea to have Barney try to run a marathon? We did have a couple of runners on the staff, but I was sadly not among them. I went through a running phase, and maybe I was up to six miles on the treadmill, but that was the peak of my lifetime running ability. And with the marathon story, we were talking about: Could somebody in good physical condition who wasn’t necessarily a runner run 26 miles? And then what would the cost be if they did? The great thing about How I Met Your Mother was that we had Barney to give some weird assertion about some challenge he could do.
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I remember a couple of writers posed to the room: “Do you think you could beat up a mob of 1,000 kindergarteners?” or “What’s the number of kindergarteners you could no longer win?” We would always talk about crazy challenges like that. One of the fun things about the group is that we would digress into hypothetical challenges. And so “Lucky Penny” very quickly and everybody was really focused on it. We were all having so much fun that we were determined to do a lot of work there so we could justify going back year after year. and I were both huge fans of Vegas-going there and gambling-so we coerced everyone at How I Met Your Mother to take three days to all go to Vegas together and write. So how was the story developed for “Lucky Penny?” So by the time it airs it’s a collaboration. You turn in your draft to the staff, the staff does a rewrite of it, and then over the course of its production week, every day you’re watching the actors rehearse and you’re doing rewrites based off what you think is working and what’s not working. The process on most every sitcom is that the story is developed by the group and led by one of the showrunners and then it’s assigned to an individual writer. You have the sole writing credit on this episode. Ten years after “Lucky Penny” first aired, Runner’s World spoke to the writer of that episode, Jamie Rhonheimer (who previously wrote for Will & Grace and now writes for Netflix's The Ranch), about how it came to be. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play
