Sometimes, a passion hits you so hard that you forget everything else in the vicinity. Such was the case with Dorando Pietri, a cook in a café in Italy. A marathon was occurring in the vicinity of the café dorando worked in, marathon was in all its grandeur with Pericle Pagliani leading. Dorando was mused with this sport and legend has it that he started running the marathon in clothes of a cook. He finished the race before Pagliani.