Marquardt first caught our attention earlier this summer when he face planted over the line in a failed attempt to break 4:00. When he broke 4:00 in style, running 3:55 a few weeks ago, we decided we had to do a feature on him.
Editor's note: We initially made some reference to him being a 'blue-collar' runner but since a few were up in arms about us calling a guy with an office job blue collar we have deleted those references in this thread so the focus can be on him running 3:55 while working a job.