Yesterday we shared with you a clip of a Texas high school senior bench-pressing 700 pounds. Today, it’s the story of Iram Leon, a former juvenile probation officer in Travis County, Texas, who has an inoperable, untreatable, cancerous brain tumor and won a marathon. Texas can be pretty cool, sometimes.

Leon’s story is amazing, and proof that you can always push harder, even when your body tells you to stop.

Two years after his brain-cancer diagnosis, he recently ran a sub-five-minute mile for the first time since high school. What has startled the medical community even more is what Leon did this month in Beaumont, Texas. He won the Gusher Marathon, finishing in 3:07:35. That was one second slower than his personal record in the 26.2-mile event, set days before he underwent brain surgery in early 2011. (via WSJ)

The most heartwarming/wrenching aspect of the run is that he spent the 26 miles pushing his 6-year-old daughter, Kiana, in a stroller, while she got free food from volunteers and listened to Disney songs. Here’s a clip of them running, and an explanation from Leon as to why he brought his daughter along for the race. Warning: your room is about to get mad dusty.

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Hey, everybody, Happy Valentine’s Day.

Remember Oscar Pistorius, the South African sprinter and double-amputee who participated in the 2012 Summer Olympics and once beat a horse in a footrace? Yeah, he murdered his girlfriend today. As the story goes, he mistook her for a home invader and shot her. Uh, four times.

Paralympic superstar Oscar Pistorius was charged Thursday with the murder of his girlfriend who was shot inside his home in South Africa, a stunning development in the life of a national hero known as the Blade Runner for his high-tech artificial legs.

Reeva Steenkamp, a model who spoke out on Twitter against rape and abuse of women, was shot four times in the predawn hours in the house, in a gated community in the capital, Pretoria, police said. (via ESPN)

One of the worst things about the murder (you know, besides somebody being f**king murdered) is that Steenkamp’s last words to the Internet were cheeky affirmations of how awesome Valentine’s Day is and an Instagram about how you shouldn’t be violent towards women. Cajun touched on that on our main page earlier today.

I don’t really know what to say. It’s a tragedy. It’s stupid.

Because we are contractually obligated to never do Twitter Reacts! posts again, I decided to find 10 Huffington Post comments section comments that totally and unbelievably missed the point, each in their own special little way. Consider it a reference guide. If you’re about to type something about Oscar Pistorius that reads like one of the following comments, just backspace it until it is gone forever.

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It’s Friday, so here’s a clip of “Bladerunner” Oscar Pistorius defeating a horse in a race. To the horse’s credit, though, let’s see how fast Pistorius is piggybacking somebody who won’t stop smacking him in the ass with a stick. (via Bush League Chronicle)

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There are a lot of great reasons to run; it improves your cardiovascular health, prevents muscle and bone loss, improves coordination and can help you both lose weight and gain confidence. On the other hand, there are negative aspects to running, such as BEARS FINDING YOU AND ATTACKING YOU AND KILLING YOU.

While this story isn’t that severe, it’s a great cautionary tale about how you should never run unless you’re running from something. Two cross-country teams from Camas High School in Washington had their meets delayed due to bear sightings, including an amazingly dramatic event on Tuesday that ended when an adult runner who’d been jogging ahead of the pack came back to warn everyone that (and allow me to italicize this) a group of unsuspecting teens were charging into a bear attack.

A local news report of the sightings with video and photo of the bear in question (who doesn’t look particularly ferocious, but in a fight between cross-country teens and a bear, I’m picking the f**king bear) is below.

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This colossal dickface wins the 3,000 meter steeplechase gold medal at the European Championships in Helsinki and celebrates by shoving an adorable mascot who happened to be a 14-year old girl. You’re on the list, guy whose name I can’t say or spell. (via Holdout Sports)

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Wait, don’t click that yet.

The video above is of Bulgarian sprinter Georgi Kirilov Georgiev trying to finish the 100m at the European Athletics Championships and … not finishing. His leg buckles in the most horrific way imaginable without a nest of spiders bursting from it and he ends up lying on the track with one functioning leg and one gigantic Twizzler dangling from his pelvis. It is the stuff of nightmares.

Okay, now click it.

Terror-inducing image after the jump.

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