Running any sort of race is an accomplishment. A marathon, now that’s a big achievement. How about seven marathons? No, not in a lifetime — in seven days!

That’s what Newtown’s Bruce Goulart did recently, completing Mainly Marathon’s New England Series in late August. Phew, now that that’s over with. …

Actually, for Goulart, 65, this wasn’t a one-time (seven-in-one-time?) thing. It wasn’t that he lost a wager or had a “bet you can’t do that” dare from somebody. For Goulart, running (a lot) is just a serious hobby.

To date, he’s run about 150 marathons since his first, in Stamford, 27 years ago. He started running marathons around the country, tying races into vacations — Goulart can’t think of a vacation in which he didn’t have a race to run — throughout the years.

Goulart is a member of the 50 States Marathon Club, a group of runners striving to run a marathon in all 50 states. For Goulart, it’s 41 down and nine to go, including Hawaii, Alaska, and a few scattered around the country.

“I’m going to do all 50,” said Goulart, adding that he hopes to complete the goal in a couple of years.

Goulart runs about 50 races per year, be them 5Ks, 10Ks, half marathons, marathons, triathlons, mud runs, ironmans, or cycling competitions. He finds some race, somewhere pretty much every Saturday and Sunday — of every weekend. He’s done 15 or 20 ironmans (each comprising a 2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike ride, and marathon or 26.2 miles of running/walking). He’s completed hundreds of smaller races, such as 5 and 10Ks.

“I’ve got some loose marbles,” Goulart jokes.

“It gets crazy. It’s like an addiction. I have to have this. It’s socially acceptable so I get away with it,” Goulart says. “It feels great. I love doing it. You meet great, fantastic people — it gives you a different feeling about life.”

Never has Goulart come back from a race and considered it a waste of time. Far from it.

“I don’t think there ever has been one race, or one event, that I have done that I would not go back to,” he adds, although there are some that stand out, such as a Pikes Peak competition in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains.

Goulart has also run Mainly Marathon’s Dust Bowl Series, which encompasses Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico. And he’s done even more than seven in seven days; yup, Goulart ran eight in eight days once, but they were all in the state of Ohio, so that was “easier” than the other series. After all, the runs are all so close together.

Piece of cake, right?

As for the getting the from point A to point B aspect of running in these series, Goulart sometimes does it alone — driving from one race to the next. He also has done some of his competitions along with the support of his significant other, Jan Brown, also 65, a fitness guru in her own right who’s run five marathons and a couple of triathlons, and is an avid softball, basketball, and pickleball player. Brown’s race days are over, she says, but she’s taken some of the burden off Goulart by driving when he’s participated in races throughout the years.

“It’s his passion,” Brown says of Goulart’s strong interest in running.

The couple met not on a race course, but ballroom dancing. But they both know what it’s like to complete a marathon, and Brown is impressed with how many Goulart has completed.

“You really push your body and your mind,” Brown says of running marathons. “It’s an impressive thing for anybody to do a marathon.”

The New England Series features marathons, in order, in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New York. On August 24, after playing in a Danbury co-ed softball league, along with Brown, in the morning (yes, Goulart decided to play a game to warm up), he drove to Maine and slept in his car — retrofitted with a makeshift bed, and with a cooler for a fridge. After running the Maine marathon, it was off to New Hampshire, and then Vermont. After the Vermont portion, Goulart drove back home to Connecticut, worked a partial day — he runs his own residential remodeling business, Goulart Construction — slept in his own bed, then got up in the wee hours of the morning to drive to Massachusetts. He did the same thing each of the last four days of the series, except managed to squeeze in another weekend softball game on the final day as well.

This running enthusiast even did one of his ironman competitions only a week before the first New England Series marathon.

Goulart doesn’t plan on retiring — from running or running his business — anytime soon because he enjoys doing both so much.

He isn’t in it to win it; Goulart does a combination of running and walking, but runs more than he walks. He completed the first leg of the series in 5:42.16. Maybe Goulart is human — the last marathon took him 7:30.57.

The race series feature half-marathon and 5K alternatives, but Goulart wouldn’t have it any other way than to push himself to the max. But back when he started running, Goulart never thought he’d do so many races.

“I would have never expected something so over-the-top or crazy,” he said.

Goulart insists there’s nothing hard about doing all of this running — except maybe the creating time part of it all. It also costs thousands of dollars each year to go to so many races.

Goulart admits he gets blisters sometimes, but says he had no such problems in the recent series of marathons. He insists his legs don’t hurt after these races. There are no nagging knee or ankle injuries. “I guess it’s just luck,” Goulart says of being able to stay healthy race after race.

For Goulart, shopping for and replacing/breaking in running shoes isn’t even much of an issue. “I do not go through running shoes,” said Goulart, adding that he ran in the same pair in each marathon in the New England series. Like Goulart, his running shoes just keep on going.

“I’m going to run them into the ground,” he says.