Runners find inner superhero

SPIDER-MAN, the Incredible Hulk, Thor and Loki were just a few of the superheroes pounding the pavement at the Gold Coast Airport Marathon.

From the junior dash to the full marathon, some were not taking themselves too seriously.

Burleigh Heads man Paul Mullaney completed the half marathon in a gingerbread man suit to beat a world record yesterday. “I had people yelling ‘run, run, as fast as you can’, and I’d yell back ‘you can’t catch me, I’m the Gingerbread Man’,” he laughed.