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The first person ever to run the entire length of Africa. Mission complete🫡
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15,553km ran
368 marathons
15 countries 🇿🇦🇳🇦🇦🇴🇨🇩🇨🇬🇨🇲🇳🇬🇧🇯🇹🇬🇬🇭🇨🇮🇬🇳🇸🇳🇲🇷🇩🇿
£269k raised for charity
340 days✅ 11 left to go🫡
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I’m currently on Day 84 of becoming the first person ever to run the entire length of Africa.
Made it through deserts, mountains, jungle. Pissed blood. Food poisoning. Recently got robbed at gunpoint. Still got over 11,000km & 13 countries to go.
This is my progress on the
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385 marathons
16 countries
£574k raised for charity
We’ve come a long way. One last push tomorrow for the record books🫡
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Ran africa. Was proper hard. Got it done. Strawberry daiquiri secured. Gave my beautiful girlfriend a big kiss. Went absolutely potty to
@softplayband
at the afters. Back in the UK later
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Day 107: 60km
Gonna be honest the last few days have probably been some of the toughest of my life.
On day 102 I was separated from the boys & the support van after some impassable roads in the planned route.
In an attempt to find the boys at a village on the
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I do
Most people do not realize just how unbelievably massive the African Continent is 😱
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£380,995 raised for charity
Deserts✅
Rainforest✅
Savannahs✅
Mountains✅
Jungle✅
7 days out from being the first person ever to run the entire length of Africa🫡
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Can’t believe it’s nearly over. See you at the shell garage soon boys & girls🫡
For everyone coming out to Tunisia this week. This will be the final run on Sunday starting at 10am local time. If you’re up for the full mara meet at the shell garage or join whatever distance you want along the route. See you there troops. Buzzing for it🫡
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They said impossible. They don’t anymore. 332 days in, 19 days to go🫡
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138 days ago I began my attempt to become the first person ever to run the entire length of Africa.
Here is a list of some of the problems I’ve had to overcome to get to this point (I’m not even halfway):
• Day 1- Started the mission with less than 10% funding
• Day 5-
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Day 60 of running the entire length of Africa. So far I’ve ran over 3000km. This is my progress on the map. 1 day at a time🫡
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Back in the UK and it feels so good. Inhaling some
@eatsides
at the new restaurant in lakeside from 11am today
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Day 278 of running the entire length of Africa. Need your support now more than ever on this one. Appreciate you all🫡
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Day 348 of running the entire length of Africa. 4 more days to go🫡
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Day 33 of running the entire length of Africa. Incredible support out here today🫡🇳🇦
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Massive thank you to all involved. Can’t wait to visit Algeria🇩🇿
Hi
@hardestgeezer
, please submit your visa application from where you are located. Our Missions will grant you a courtesy visa on the spot.
You can submit your application either to our Embassies in Bamako, Dakar or Nouakchott or to our Consulate in Nouadhibou (Mauritania). 1/2
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For everyone coming out to Tunisia this week. This will be the final run on Sunday starting at 10am local time. If you’re up for the full mara meet at the shell garage or join whatever distance you want along the route. See you there troops. Buzzing for it🫡
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Day 1 of running to every England game at the euros. Buzzing for this one!
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Yes boys & girls. Absolutely buzzing to be back on road, running to Germany to support
@england
throughout the euros. Leaving wembley now, ferocious 1s & 2s to every game. COME ON💪
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Day 209-211:
Day 209: 60.1km
Day 210: 37.1km
Day 211: 51.8km
Total raised for charity: £77,397
You see me yeah. Mashed up differently right now. I look in the mirror I see a few things have changed in the last 211 days. Head is a jungle. Body is a wafer thin
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Day 343-349
Day 343: 75.7km
Day 344: 75km
Day 345: 75km
Day 346: 75.5km
Day 347: 34.7km
Day 348: 85.4km
Day 349: 81km
Total raised for
@Running_Charity
@sandblastarts
£543,986
Here we go. Crossed the border from Algeria to Tunisia last night marking the 16th and
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5 DAYS TO GO.
The last 347 days running through africa have no doubt been the toughest of my life, but such an immense honour.
We have met incredible people in every single country we've been to that have welcomed us with love & kindness. The human spirit is a beautiful thing.
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£1,000,000 raised for charity. I can’t tell you how much this is going to do for
@Running_Charity
&
@sandblastarts
A massive thank you to
@huel
for tipping us over the line yesterday and also
@perfecttednrg
@hoka
&
@wearegivestar
who helped make the project possible.
Biggest
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Me in 2016. Couldn’t run a bath, let alone a marathon. Mess of a bloke.
No one gets to decide your limitations except you🫡
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Just been informed I am being prosecuted on 331 counts of crimes against the African tarmac network.
The charges include “inciting violence against tarmac” “grievous tarmac harm” and “ferocious 1s & 2s”
I would like to have it on record that I plead 100% guilty of all charges.
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Day 318 of running the entire length of Africa. WE BACK BABY🫡🇩🇿
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Careers over. Going home. Anyone got any jobs going?
A female GPS-tracked falcon flew from South Africa to Finland. In 42 days she flew over 10,000 km. That's 230 km per day. What have you achieved in the last 42 days? Source:
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Day 64: 32km
Nothing like a gun being pointed at your face to let you know you’re alive. Lively one today.
Ferocious 1’s & 2’s all morning. Met the boys for a lunch break. Chatting our usual dribble in the van like any other day when a couple lads popped open the
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Morning run with the prime minister. Sharp change from the morning runs I have got used to over the last year🤣
It was a massive privilege to get the opportunity to run with the prime minister yesterday and poke my head around 10 Downing Street. Something I’ll enjoy telling the
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Day 341 of running the entire length of Africa. 10 to go🫡
Big thank you to Jordan Jack Turner for the kind words.
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Unreal effort!
🎥 WATCH: The moment Craig Ferguson finished his 42 day walk from Hampden to Munich for men’s mental health 🏴
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Day 337-342:
Day 337: 70.7km
Day 338: 69.8km
Day 339: 72.6km
Day 340: 28.9km
Day 341: 76km
Day 342: 74.6km
Total raised for charity: £350,537
9 days out. For so long the finish line has felt like some mystical event happening very far into the future so it’s
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Watched MOTD since I was a kid. Honour to make this with them🫡
The Premier League is a long, winding, grinding road 🛣
Join us for the first
#MOTD2
of the season!
📲 Watch on
@BBCOne
and
@BBCiPlayer
at 22:30 BST📲
#BBCFootball
|
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270 days on the spin. Lift my head up. The end is still no where to be seen. Thought I’d be done & dusted by now but no bother. God still got a few lessons to teach me on this mission. Till the end🫡
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Day 241: 110km
Total raised for charity so far: £109,721
Decent shift out there today. Longest run of the mission by some distance. Longer days are yet to come. Intent on pushing physical limits further than anything I would've previously considered possible of
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Day 279-283
Total raised for charity: £149,389
Day 279: 50.6km
Day 280: 51km
Day 281: 51.5km
Day 282: 50.5km
Day 283: 49.6km
Boys and girls we did it. We’re going to Algeria, and the power of social media made it happen. There is still over 4000km of running
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Day 331-336
Day 331: 75km
Day 332: 75.4km
Day 333: 74.9km
Day 334: 74.9km
Day 335: 75.2km
Day 336: 69.8km
Total raised for
@Running_Charity
@sandblastarts
@WaterAidUK
£254,165
Days left until finish: 15
Some tough days in there. The last 2 weeks have been the
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Just passed half a million for
@Running_Charity
&
@sandblastarts
Thanks to everyone involved🫡
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Lots of rumours circulating today. Just wanted to hop on here to confirm they are true.
The worldwide scientific community are left in a state of utter shock as I become the first ginger man ever to develop a tan.
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Day 302-304
Day 302: 65km
Day 303: 66km
Day 304: 54km
Total raised for charity: £182,492
Total distance covered: 13,270km
Days left until finish: 48
Off into rural Sahara now boys & girls. Tarmac has finished and just clinging on to last bit of signal now. I
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Day 26: 21.1km
The day that was always coming. Woke up with muddy water falling out my arse and vommit falling out my face. Not ideal. Couldn't even get myself vertical until the afternoon.
Managed to stomach 4 squares of chocolate and a few sips of orange
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Day 294 of running the entire length of Africa and the world famous Sahara has well and truly arrived.
The biggest hot desert in the world is the last major obstacle standing in my way. Sun is lethal. Sand is unlimited. Even having to battle the local camels on the rob for my
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Some people have literally no idea how blessed they are to be born and raised in the UK
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Last day in Senegal today. Sahara is coming. I’m ready🫡
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Never been stopped more in one day by people offering their food, water or any ways in which they can help me whilst I’m on the road. Incredible hospitality.
Even met some locals who gifted me a Mauritania footy shirt. Goes hard I reckon🇲🇷
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Day 220 of running the entire length of Africa. 8 countries down, 8 more to go🫡
South Africa 🇿🇦✅
Namibia 🇳🇦✅
Angola 🇦🇴✅
DRC🇨🇩✅
Republic of Congo🇨🇬✅
Cameroon🇨🇲✅
Nigeria🇳🇬✅
Benin 🇧🇯✅
Pending…
Togo 🇹🇬
Ghana 🇬🇭
Ivory Coast 🇨🇮
Guinea 🇬🇳
Senegal 🇸🇳
Mauritania 🇲🇷
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Day 284-289
Total raised for charity: £159,127
Day 284: 51.4km
Day 285: 48.7km
Day 286: 46.9km
Day 287: 50.8km
Day 288: 50.6km
Day 289: 49.8km
Finally got a finish date locked in. April 7th 2024. The first person ever to run the entire length of Africa. It’s
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Day 267-271
Total raised for charity: £131,898
Day 267: 50km
Day 268: 50km
Day 269: 50km
Day 270: 50km
Day 271: 50km
Hitting the Senegalese border today, marking the 13th country of the mission so far🇿🇦 🇳🇦 🇦🇴 🇨🇩🇨🇬🇨🇲🇳🇬🇧🇯🇹🇬🇬🇭🇨🇮🇬🇳🇬🇳🇸🇳
3 more to go after this🇲🇷🇩🇿🇹🇳
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Day 324-329:
Day 324: 69.5km
Day 325: 75.3km
Day 326: 75km
Day 327: 75.3km
Day 328: 74.9km
Day 329: 75km
Total raised for
@Running_Charity
@sandblastarts
@WaterAidUK
£206,299
Total distance covered: 14,771km
Days left until finish: 22
Turned 27 a couple days
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Day 261-266:
Day 261: 50km
Day 262: 50km
Day 263: 50km
Day 264: 50km
Day 265: 50km
Day 266: 50km
Total raised for charity: £126,290
Approaching the last few days in Guinea. Been up in the mountains getting about it. Someone’s swapped my hip flexors for cheese
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Gaining some big momentum in the last couple days. £20k in the last 12 hours. Massive thank you to everyone who has donated big or small.
The money raised is going directly to
@Running_Charity
&
@sandblastarts
who I will continue to work with long after the run is finished in 9
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Day 33: 45km
Wow. One of them days where I just feel proud to be human. The energy on the road was INSANE. These guys know all about the 1’s & 2’s.
I spend so much time running alone I sometimes forget the power of running together, it’s so intrinsically human
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Have loved watching
@Thehullboy1
get after it this month. 1 mile a day, every day. Buzzing to join him for a mile tomorrow. What an inspiration!🫡
Day 29 completed of a mile run every day this month to raise awareness for mental health. Slightly emotionally, been an incredible month. Can’t wait to run with Russ tomorrow, genuinely the most nervous I’ve felt for years! Just Know you are not alone and your loved on this earth
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Isn’t always pretty but it all gets handled in the end. 1 step at a time. Sahara getting the same treatment as the rest. 14,000km+ deep, having it.
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Day 45: 0km
Ahhhh the rest day I was trying so hard to avoid. Went doctors this morning. Got tests done. Blood & protein in my urine for the 4th day in a row. Hoping to find out exactly what’s going on when we get more results tomorrow.
Doc said I need to take a
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2000 pints in 200 days hahaha. Animal.
Can’t decide if the guy drinking 2000 pints in 200 days is more impressive than the bloke running across Africa
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Day 48 of running the entire length of Africa. Test results back from doc🫡
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Hey
@GreggsOfficial
I’m 34 days deep into running the length of Africa. What do I have to do to get a sausage roll delivered to me out here?
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#ProjectAfrica
Day 208:
Day 202: 40km
Day 203: 40km
Day 204: 37.6km
Day 205: ❌
Day 206: ❌
Day 207: 60km
Day 208: 60km
What a week. Back problem turned into probably the biggest injury I’ve had on the mission so far. Very painful. Reduced mileage and intensity to try and give
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Day 66: 55.7km
Intense day. Hot, humid, hills. Triple threat. The Angolan police are now escorting us. Feel sorry for the guy who’s gotta sit at 10km p/h in his motor all day. Grateful that Angola is doing what they can to keep us safe🇦🇴
I can’t speak any
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Best of luck to everyone running the London marathon tomorrow. I will be there on tarmac pacing some incredible young people with
@Running_Charity
I really do love the marathon. My dad first ran one when I was a young lad and I thought he was superman. Running my first one
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Incorrect. Every single penny of the fundraiser goes to charity. Mission is funded entirely separately mostly through the help of our sponsors, youtube, and everyone who supports on patreon. The business & funding behind the project is a hell of a story in itself.
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Day 61: 62.6km
Day 62: 61.4km
Day 63: 63.8km
Another few days without signal. Still getting about it. Body holding steady. Proper bit of work in that heat but we always knew that was gonna be the case.
Seen a lot of rural Angola in the last couple of weeks and
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Salam alaykum🇲🇷
New country. New beard game. Same mission🫡
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Day 53: 59.1km
Been a few days with very little/no signal so here’s a quick recap.
Day 50: 50km
Final day in Namibia🇳🇦 Jarred rejoined the team🫡
Day 51: 24.5km
Spent most of the day crossing the border. Poo’d myself. Hectic. Made it eventually.
First
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Marcus started this year not being able to run more than a few metres in a row. On September 7th he is going to run a marathon.
4 months ago he decided to push himself to run 1 mile everyday for a month to raise awareness and funds for mental health.
I met him for his last mile
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Day 70: 59.6km
70 days in and this mission has fundamentally changed me as a man.
Before I was an eat anything on site kind of bloke. 5 second rule + stoppage time. Good to go. Is it edible? I volunteer as sacrifice. Iron stomach.
Not anymore. Can’t trust a
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Day 323: 76.7km
Total raised for
@Running_Charity
@sandblastarts
@wateraid
£200,270
Total distance covered: 14,327km
Days left until finish: 28
Final 4 weeks. What a crazy adventure this has been so far. Been getting it from all angles for nearly a year
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Day 330: 76km
Total raised for
@Running_Charity
@sandblastarts
@WaterAidUK
£219,313
Total distance covered: 14,847km
Days left until finish: 21
Yes boys & girls. Another day closer. Wanted to open up the last day of this project to anyone & everyone who has
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This is Vian. From what I could gather he is 8 years old. He hunts animals all day and then sells them on the side of the road to passers by to help support his family. They live together in a hut made out of wood and corrugated iron in the jungle. No running water. No
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Day 27: 43.5km
Haven’t been able to hold any food down for 2 days. Whacked major. Pure zombie stomping out there. Regular spew breaks. Running off nothing but hopes, dreams and gods will.
Have a patchy memory of it happening tbh but strava said it happened so I
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Day 17: 47.7km
Some 48 hours it’s been. Solo across the border. Into the desert for a night shift. Made it out alive. No sleep. Exhausted. No choice but to carry on into the day. Boiling hot. Ran out of water. No shade anywhere. Just desert and tarmac.
Found a
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This is how much progress I’ve made in 4 days of running the length of africa. I’ve done over 215km so far.
The scale of this continent and challenge is incomprehensible.
1 day at a time
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Day 37: 43km
Not pretty out there. Spent half the night on the bog. Knew it was gonna be a big ask today.
Set up like prime Mourinho in champo league semis. Tight at the back. Nothing silly. Get the 0-0 away from home and we’ll create magic in the return leg.
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Day 32 of running the entire length of Africa. Todays message courtesy of a true icon Sir Mo Farah🫡
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Ain’t in my finest health right now but I will be back on road as soon as possible boys & girls. Sometimes down. Never out.
Massive thank you for all the support🫡
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Day 59/60: 62km/60.9km
State of it mate. Feral. No extra points for looking good out here. Nose to tarmac. Get about it.
2 months on road so far. Just the warm up. Mileage is only gonna get more intense. Logistics more problematic. Dangers more real. Lots at
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Day 102 of running the entire length of Africa. Made it to the DRC🇨🇩
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Day 28 of running the entire length of Africa. Couple ginger lads stomping road in Africa
@AllyALaw
🫡
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Day 30/31 100.2km
Accidentally consumed 650mg of caffeine today. Closed my eyes on the road this arvo and it felt like I’d been teleported to a deep house basement rave. Off my nut tonight.
Other than that it’s been a steady couple days on the stomp. Body nearly
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Just the beginning for
@Thehullboy1
congratulations on getting it done mate. The journey to a marathon starts here!
Day 30 and the last day Completed of a mile run every day this month for mental health. Thank you so much
@hardestgeezer
for the amazing day, run and meal! The best day of my life, truly what a legend
There are still good people in this world. You are not alone. You are loved ❤️
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Day 180: 61.3km
180 days on the trot. Having it. Progress on the map starting to look tasty. Pretty sure I got a whiff of Tunisian beach air earlier today.
Team split up this morning with
@cameramanstan_
& new recruit Jamie heading south to the port with the van
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Day 67/68: 54.6km/52.7km
Another couple days in the books. Hard work out there. Feeling out a couple niggles today but nothing 8 hours sleep and some more tarmac tomorrow won’t sort out.
Police continue to escort us. Comms between us are lacking slightly due to
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Day 40 of running the entire length of Africa. Angola soon🇦🇴🤝
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Day 46/47: 1km/31.5km
Slow couple days. No definitive test results back from doctors yet. Could be a number of things. Some more problematic than others.
Doc said rest up and drink up so I’ve just been proceeding with a few gentle 1’s & 2’s whilst chugging
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