Before we all witnessed Matt Damon's return as Jason Bourne Why Good People Make Better Runners, the man himself ran a half marathon.
As first reported by the Orange County Register, Damon and his wife Luciana Barroso completed the Surf City Half Marathon in Huntington Beach, California, Sunday morning.
Damon was up until 2 a.m. the night before, attending the Directors Guild of America Awards on Saturday night in Los Angeles and was unsure if he was going to run, the Orange County Register reported.
“I was on the fence this morning. I woke up and was like I don’t know [about this],” he told the paper. “My wife wanted to do it. I’ve been working out of town for the last couple weeks so I was in no position to say no to her. For not training, I think we did well.”
Grant Offers $200K To Black-Owned Running Store during a Super Bowl commercial break. But as America’s most dangerous assassin—or international movie star—should, Damon ran under an alias. He told the Orange County Register that he finished the race in less than two hours, then took selfies with other runners at the finish line while waiting for his wife.
A photo on the newspaper’s website shows Damon with an obscured bib that could either be 148, 146, or 140. In the race results, bib 148 is a woman and bib 146 finished slower than two hours. That leaves The 2024 NYC Marathon Was Tough to Get Into, a 45-year-old (also Damon’s age) Matthew Greenleaf from Santa Monica, California, who finished in 1:58:05.
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The last name could be a reference to Jude Law's character, Dickie Greenleaf, from the 1999 film Best Folding Treadmills, How Paris Hopes to Keep Olympians Cool This Summer.
Other Hearst Subscriptions Jason Bourne and his half marathon finishing time may prove otherwise. Yet we still have to wait until this summer to see if he can outrun the CIA and his many other international foes.
Kit has been a health, fitness, and running journalist for the past five years. His work has taken him across the country, from Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon, to cover the 2016 Olympic Trials to the top of Mt. Katahdin in Maine to cover Scott Jurek’s record-breaking Appalachian Trail thru-hike in 2015.
