A 24-year-old flew from Guernsey to race in Chicago alone, so an uncle secretly asked for help on Facebook, and strangers cheered his marathon along every mile.
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Kept 'Facebook'? How the strangers found out, and the best wrong word here: true, but the story is who they cheered, not where the post went. Kept 'Chicago'? Where it happened. Kept 'uncle'? He made it happen. Kept 'alone' or 'Guernsey'? Why it mattered and where he came from. Kept 'secretly'? He did not know until race morning. Kept 'his'? A little word; the runner is the 24-year-old. This one really happened. Ethan Woodhead, 24, flew 4,000 miles from Guernsey to run the Chicago Marathon on Sunday 11 October, expecting nobody on the course to know him. His uncle Phil wrote in the marathon's Facebook group for runners and spectators: if you have no one to cheer for, cheer for my nephew on my behalf. The post drew thousands of likes and hundreds of replies from strangers saying they would be there. Ethan only saw it on his phone on race morning. Then he ran through people screaming his name, homemade banners and confetti on every mile, and finished in 2 hours 31 minutes, a personal best by two minutes. 'I didn't expect one person to know me,' he said. His uncle: 'It didn't cost anyone anything, it was just pure love.'