All the celebs have been out on Sundown Blvd. on Sunday for the 2026 Asics L.A. Marathon, together with well-known American music producer John Summit (John Schuster)who made his marathon debut and rapidly grabbed the title of the world’s quickest well-known DJ.
Schuster, who has greater than 12 million month-to-month listeners on Spotify, completed the race in three hours, half-hour and 12 seconds. His time positioned him one hundred and eightieth out of greater than 2,000 runners within the males’s 30-34 age class.
The 31-year-old’s end result formally makes him the quickest marathon-running DJ on this planet, surpassing Diplo, who ran the 2023 Los Angeles Marathon in 3:55:11.
Schuster stated his purpose going into the occasion was to interrupt the four-hour mark, and he did that with flying colors. He even stated he did so with a sideline tequila shot at mile 20, which apparently rallied him for the ultimate 6.2 miles.
“It was legit the toughest factor I’ve carried out in my life, however the L.A. power was completely electrical,” Schuster wrote in a Strava submit. “I gave it my all and virtually handed out on the end. I don’t bear in mind the final mile in any respect, however what an expertise. Shoutout to everybody for cheering me on—I’ve by no means felt that a lot love earlier than!”
Earlier than turning into a DJ in 2017, Schuster grew up distance operating and competed in cross-country at Neuqua Valley Excessive Faculty in his hometown of Naperville, Sick. Throughout that point, Schuster had a 5K private better of 17:54 and completed throughout the high 100 on the NXN Nike Cross Midwest Championships.
Final yr, he made headlines for racing a 45-minute 10K in Munich simply hours earlier than taking the stage for a DJ set.
Schuster rediscovered operating in his late 20s as a method to see the town and take a psychological well being break throughout his busy tour schedule. And after this stellar L.A. Marathon end result, it looks as if Schuster nonetheless has a few of his earlier high-school observe velocity in his legs. Be careful, Harry Kinds.
