Edward Norton to run New York City Marathon for the African Maasia warriors

OK, Edward Norton is not technically running next month's New York City Marathon for the famous Maasia warriors of the African plains. No, but he is running to raise money for the  Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust.
The trust is working to raise money to protect and save the Maasia lands and ecosystem.
But Norton, like so many other runners, is not just doing the race for charity. He writes on his fund raising web site:
"Running has always been a means to an end, in my experience. I’ve run in training for sports, run to be in shape for climbing or diving, run to change my body for a role in film, but I’ve never really run a race or run just to run. I’ve never run a marathon.

That I’ve never done it and that the difficulty of it intimidates me is part of my motivation to do it. I’ve often found that pushing myself toward fear produces extremely interesting experiences. When I feel very unsure of my ability to pull something off or the outcome seems very uncertain I usually learn a lot no matter what the end result.
The thought had also entered my head that I’d like to try to be in better shape at 40 than I was at 30 and training for a marathon seemed like a good way to get there."
So far Norton has raise $9,142 for his charity and in the process got one of his friends attacked by Africanized honey bees on a training run.