WASHINGTON – Most people woke up Sunday morning and enjoyed a leisurely brunch, perhaps while reading the New York Times.

Christoph Niemann, a cartoonist for the New York Times, not only woke up early Sunday morning to run the New York Marathon, but he live-drew and Tweeted his entire marathon run.

From the moment he woke up at 4:48 a.m. to his final step over the finish line, Niemann sketched and colored his journey for his (now) 12,629 Twitter followers under the handle @abstractsunday.

At one point, Niemann was forced to create a new Twitter handle — @abstractsunday1 — after he reached his daily Tweeting limit, which happens to be 1,000 tweets in a 24-hour period.

His tweets range from cartoons of him going through security with his notepad and markers to his search for a new lid to his pink marker.

Buzzfeed has posted all of Niemann’s tweets and related drawings at this link.

To see more of his clever cartoons for the New York Times, click here.

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