--- title: Man Runs Marathon Dressed as Testicles to Raise Money for Cancer description: Jack Woodward, 22, ran the London Marathon dressed as part of the male anatomy to raise money and awareness for cancer. canonical: https://time.com/3840070/london-marathon-testicles-costume/ author: Eliza Berman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-04-29T17:19:53.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:19:16.463Z og:title: Why This Man Ran the London Marathon Dressed as a Pair of Testicles og:description: Jack Woodward, 22, ran the London Marathon dressed as part of the male anatomy to raise money and awareness for cancer. og:url: https://time.com/3840070/london-marathon-testicles-costume/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Why This Man Ran the London Marathon Dressed as a Pair of Testicles twitter:description: Jack Woodward, 22, ran the London Marathon dressed as part of the male anatomy to raise money and awareness for cancer. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Man Had a Great Reason for Running a Marathon While Dressed as a Pair of Testicles  by [Eliza Berman](https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Apr 29, 2015 5:19 PM UTC  by [Eliza Berman](https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Apr 29, 2015 5:19 PM UTC > [](https://twitter.com/ellahewitt/status/592629291197853696) Spectators at the London Marathon this past Sunday may have been surprised to see a pair of giant testicles bobbing up and down among a sea of runners. But Jack Woodward’s reason for dressing as male genitalia is as serious as the costume was absurd. Woodward, 22, decided to don the costume to raise money and awareness for testicular cancer, to which he recently lost his 21-year-old friend Rob Harris. Woodward ran not just as any pair of nuts, but as Mr. Testicles, the mascot of the [Male Cancer Awareness Campaign](http://www.malecancer.org/mr-testicles/home). The friendly mascot exists for the purpose of “reducing embarrassment and raising awareness of testicular cancer,” which has a good prognosis if detected and treated in the early stages. Woodward told BBC’s Newsbeat, “I think too many people are too self conscious to go and get checked or they find something and then they just brush it off. But instead if you find something irregular with your body or different you should just go get it checked, it’s better to be safe than sorry. “ > [](https://twitter.com/MrTesticles/status/593103793065205761) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3840070/london-marathon-testicles-costume/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3840070/london-marathon-testicles-costume/"},"headline":"This Man Had a Great Reason for Running a Marathon While Dressed as a Pair of Testicles","datePublished":"2015-04-29T17:19:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:19:16.463Z","description":"He may seem nuts, but Jack Woodward was actually running to fight cancer","url":"https://time.com/3840070/london-marathon-testicles-costume/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","Cancer","Marathon"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliza Berman","jobTitle":"Berman is a senior editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3840070/london-marathon-testicles-costume/","name":"This Man Had a Great Reason for Running a Marathon While Dressed as a Pair of Testicles"}}]}] ```