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My Run around the world

The World Runners Association (WRA) is the body that validates around-the-world journeys.
Seven people have, to date, succesfully run around the world (see them listed with links on the page "About").

The WRA lists 10 rules, including the following:

  1. Running a minimum distance of 26,232km which equates the sum of the maximal width of all continents.
  2. This must be run in a continuous direction and by crossing a minimum of 4 continents from Ocean to Ocean.
  3. The run must finish where it started.

I had elected to run this lap of earth across Europe, Australia, New Zealand, North America, South America.

*Covid19 Note: I finished the European crossing in June 2021. Australia's and New Zealand's borders were still closed. WRA agreed that I should get to the next open continent when feasible, hereby getting an exceptional exemption from the "continuous direction" rule. On this basis I ran across North America, completing the crossing in November 2021. The borders of Australia & NZ were still closed, and I ran across South America. In February 2022 it was announced that Australia was finally reopening its borders. I thererore ran across Australia & New Zealand as the last continent.

Details of my run

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