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Running The World 196 – Everything You Need to Know… 196 Marathons, 196 Countries, 550 Days, 8 World Records.

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Running The World 196January 1st, 2018

Launch EventSeptember 30th, 2018

5 months to go.

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Day 99 - United States 🇺🇸 Boston. Looking ahead to the London 🇬🇧 Marathon 😎 —————- I’ve spent the evening sitting on a stool looking out of my room window on the 17th floor of my hotel. It’s now 1 in the morning. It’s dark and the wind is howling on the glass as I look out to the icy sea of the Boston coast. Cars slow to a halt at red lights. I watch the lights turn green and the cars move off under the yellow street lights. It’s quiet. All I can hear is the wind on the window and the pipes of the hotel’s heating. The city is still and so am I. It’s times like these that I really enjoy some time to think, slow down and reflect on everything. —————- Thinking about all the people I’ve met, all the places I’ve been and how many more experiences to come; I can’t help but think about Kev and all the other men out there dying of prostate cancer and the chances they won’t get. I feel the whole spectrum of emotions; anger, frustration, sadness, and joy. Joy because I am making a difference, and the rest, because it’s a hard uphill battle to stop cancer. I’m also profoundly appreciative of the life of a westerner, and indeed the life I have. I’ve seen thousands of people in Haiti washing in streams, the horrendously malnourished communities in Central America, the devastation of hurricanes in the Caribbean, and tough daily lives of those in the likes of Guatemala and Jamaica. Not to mention the life or a North Korean. —————- We are lucky beyond comprehension so go live your life how you want to! Because you can! —————- Snow, wind and rain today. I love the cold at the moment. My second full day in Boston and so further admin and exploring to be done. Fuelled with some tasty morning snacks I made my way by train to a number of different cities from Boston out west. If I’m honest I’m not sure where I went. Just exploded. Nice not to have any set route for a change haha. Regardless of the foot I’m still pretty keen to get on with the London Marathon and tick it off. Looking ahead to London if anyone is running it, or wants to say hi for a quick message of support or selfie please comment below. Id love to meet the people that are UK based and supporting me. #running

Day 98 - United States 🇺🇸 Boston 1st of 3 days. —————- Lemon meringue pie, Insanely tasty soup, and a hot chocolate so good I had three. —————- Today I had a long sleep to try and adjust my body to UK time ready for when i get back to London. I’ll be back in London in 4 days time ahead of the London Marathon on the 22nd April before jetting off again to start my 5 months Africa phase in Morocco. —————- After yesterday’s post about failing and picking yourself up, this brings me on to the frustrating news that although I’ve just arrived in Boston, I won’t actually be able to run the Boston marathon this year. ☹️ My team and I attempted for sometime to fix my little error. I had a suitable qualifying time for the race but stupidly missed the deadline to register it. What with the race being particularly strict due to safety and security reasons, changing names of entries or anything like that was just not possible. My team and I spent about 3 months rallying around various charity organisations to beg and plead for a place. We succeeded twice actually. We were agreed places on two occasions only to be let down for various reasons. In hindsight I think this was because they didn’t understand that changing of names was strictly forbidden 🚫. Although frustrating, I give credit to the Boston Marathon organisers for keeping safety at the top of the list and sticking to it. Not to worry, I’ll squeeze Boston in next year so I still complete all the world majors. —————- After lots of admin and wading through thousands of emails this morning I took the Amtrak train and the Greyhound bus service to neighbouring states. Rhode Island and Connecticut to be precise. It was a cold, blustery day, but sitting on trains and buses was good way to get around while tapping away at the laptop to try and get things done. So many bits and pieces have fallen by the way side due to the hectic nature of the trip I’m hoping these few days will make a dent. I found a cafe called Flour Bakery. It’s blooming great! I think it’s going to be my breakfast spot every morning. —————- #bostonmarathon #sumkt444 #sumkt466 #flourbakeryandcafe #flourbakery #run #boston #marathon #youareawesome #love

Day 97 - Ecuador 🇪🇨 Quito, to United States 🇺🇸 Boston via Panama 🇵🇦City. —————- I touched down in Boston at 19:00pm this evening. Another long day of flying but I’m excited to be here. —————- Such a great surprise to bump into Juan at the airport on the Panama layover. Jaun and I ran together in El Salvador 🇸🇻 months ago. I was happily strolling along in the airport towards my gate when I heard my name be called. I ignored it twice because it obviously wasn’t for me right? Wrong. Jaun had spotted me. To our surprise we were both catching the same flight. He was running the Boston Marathon too. This has actually happened a few times since the beginning of the journey. I feel like I have a bunch of new friends all over the world now. I really will do by the time I finish. I’m so lucky. These folk are awesome. —————- Apart from raising the money for Prostate Cancer UK, this trip is about celebrating being out of the comfort zone. Which is certainly how I’ve spent most of the last 97 days and something I’m very passionate about. This is my message to all the young people and children that I speak to in schools and youth centres around the world. If you have connections to schools or similar and want me to speak after I finish the trip, please get in touch because it’s getting booked up now. —————- My general message is about being prepared to push ourselves in the direction of the unknown. This includes being prepared to fail or to mess things up, and celebrating the fact we had the courage to try in the first place. I believe being out of the so called ‘comfort zone’ is what makes us stronger and generally happier and better people. As long as we learn from our failings correctly it’s sometimes even better than things going right all the time. I could continue my little rant for quite some time on this subject, but I won’t. Get in touch if you want me to come along and speak somewhere. I really enjoy it. —————- #running #run #runner #marathon #bostonmarathon #flight #panama #friends #speaker #hot #life #guy #runningtheworld196

Day 96 - Marathon 36, Ecuador 🇪🇨 —————- Sore, tired and even more sore. Waking up this morning was tough. Especially because I couldn’t sleep due to jet lag. I was also in a mental battle before I even slipped on the trainers. My achilles was still not right. Leaving the warmth of my bed and out into another unknown playground was still exciting but with a hint of anxiousness for the foot. My trainers are also on their last legs too so let’s just say it got painful. I have about 50 miles left before they’re due to retire and I felt it in the soles of my feet. This, coupled with my achilles feeling more and more sore every step It really wasn’t very enjoyable. It was cold when I left the hotel so I wore long sleeves over a vest. At mile 14 it got hot, apparently very hot. It didn’t feel it, but I now have some rosie red shoulders. Probably going to be painful in the morning. This place is beautiful and being so close to the equator I was tempted to try and run along it as close as possible. After a while I abandoned that idea because my mind was so tired. Yawning while running is getting more and more common. I love running, which is pretty obvious I guess, but sometimes when it hurts, I love it even more. Maybe not the sunburn but the accomplishment of getting to through it when it’s hard is so much better than when I feel fresh. I’m currently sat in the bath again. The novelty of having a lovely big 5 star bath is brilliant. Legs soaking while I edit some photos on the iPad. —————- I’ve just got back from the Equator line. It’s about 18:00pm now and my foot made it through and was stable enough to walk along the equator for a while. Also if you scroll to the last photo you’ll see my new very bright blue lounge pants. I would say travel pants really. Got them in Peru and now I live in them. Don’t laugh. —————- So that was Marathon 36. I’m getting excited for Africa now. I am a bit scared though. It will feel very different. A whole new chapter that’s for sure. Please keep up the support. If you can afford to donate please do. Just Giving Running The World 196. I have many miles to run, but even more money to raise. Please help. #run #marathon #quito

Day 95 - In Transit. Final leg of the 25,000 mile round trip to Ecuador. —————- Following on from yesterday’s post I’m in another airport. Wow this journey is long. My decision to fit in North Korea this year was certainly right but it’s a long way. You never know what will happen and I would hate for Donald Trump to be the reason that I can’t get to every country in the world. I’m very glad it’s been a big tick in the box. Let’s look at what my little detour meant. I left Peru 6 days ago having one country remaining in South America. I couldn’t quite fit in Quito in time, so it meant a 25,000 mile round trip in just 4 days. Here’s how it went. —————- Flight 1 - Peru, Lima to Canada, Toronto. Flight 2 - Canada, Toronto to China, Beijing. Flight 3 - China, Beijing to North Korea, Pyongyang. Flight 4 - North Korea, Pyongyang to China, Beijing Flight 5 - China, Beijing to US, New York Flight 6 - US, New York to Colombia, Bogotá. Flight 7 - Colombia, Bogotá to Ecuador, Quito —————- Quito is where I am now. It’s 19:00pm and I’ve just arrived at this very luxury hotel. Hotel Casa Gangotena. Every now and then I get bumped to the 5 star pile thanks to the brilliance of my team and the huge generosity of various hotels. In just under 11 hours time I’ll be waking up, completely jet lagged, with no idea where I’ll run but ready to complete my last run in South America, and indeed the Americas in total. My achilles is sore and I’ll be running at altitude. Wish me luck. For some reason I was feeling extra tired and in a pretty glum mood. No idea why but I managed to lift my mood when I realised I could have a bath. My first bath of the trip. It felt so good. I fell asleep almost instantly and as usual when you sleep you kinda hit the reset button so I woke up feeling refreshed. It was 23:00pm so I was still tired but hey I had a bath. Marathon 36 tomorrow. Oh and I have 2 interviews via phone at stupid o clock in the morning. #run #travel #photography #book #runner #running #marathon #bostonmarathon #boston #planes #ukrunchat

Day 94 - North Korea 🇰🇵 to China 🇨🇳 Beijing and my next 35 hours on planes —————- Great sunrise but how many planes take off while I wait for my flight? Comment below. —————- A bike virus, the wrong pizza and bye bye new friends. I arrived back to Beijing at 09:50 this morning after an early flight from Pyongyang on Air Koryo. Saying bye to new friends is once again tough. Thanks guys. Tag yourselves please. —————- Apart from the long faff at the airport, I spent the afternoon with Adrian with at the Koryo office or at his place. Generally the day was spent putting the world to rights or chatting with Adrian and co about life, the world, Korea and future plans. You know the kind of day when everyone has loads of things to do but they best way to spend our time was to chat; sat in the sun in the alley way by the office. I think I’m a strange and far too deep way this it what makes us human. Talking about nothing but yet no time was wasted. It rare for me actually. I’m usually rushing around or have some form of agenda. —————- On the walk back from the office to the house i got a true simple taste of Beijing. As we made our way along the streets there were hundreds of bikes all littered along the road, pavement and more or less every possible space. These bikes looked like they had all fallen ill to some terrible biological attack. It wasn’t just a few bikes knocked over. As the song goes there are bloody loads of bikes in Beijing, but this was silly. I should of taken a photo. Darn. —————- I’m on my way to Ecuador via a multi stop layover in New York and Colombia. I’ll arrive at 16:00 tomorrow after close to 25,000 miles flying. I’m writing this at 35000 feet as tonight becomes tomorrow. Now losing 12 hours going the other way around the world, I’m all in a haze. A concoction of tiredness, hunger, jet lag, and that weird buzzy noise that you get on planes. Not really a noise; Just the feeling of travelling at 600mph 35km above the earth. —————- Tomorrow’s post will pick up from where I left off. More flying. I’ll eventually get to Quito though and time to tick off my last country in all of the Americas. #run #sunrise #marathon #londonmarathon

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