Eurocross for a Cause - Ralph Mesquita
In Summer 2017 25-year old Belgian-Brazilian ultrarunner Ralph Mesquite ran across Europe to raise awareness about the health problems associated with obesity worldwide and to...
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Blue Planet Run
Jun 1, 2007
New York City, NY, USA
Sep 4, 2007
New York City, NY, USA
The movement began with a step, followed by millions more… The Blue Planet Run covered 15,200 miles, across 16 countries and 3 continents, 24 hours a day for 95 days to deliver an extremely urgent and important message: we can and must begin today to alleviate the catastrophic burden placed on over a billion people who, every day, must drink unsafe local water, or travel long distances on foot to search for safe water for themselves and their families. An extraordinary collaboration of photographers, journalists, environmentalists, designers and athletes who teamed up over the summer of 2007 to put a...
Grand Union Canal Solo - Mark Thornberry
Sep 2, 2017
Birmingham, UK
Sep 4, 2017
London, UK
Running ultras is Mark Thornberry’s way to raise funds for liver cancer researchA few months after his terminal liver cancer diagnosis Mark felt good enough to cover the 145 miles of the Grand Union Canal Race.He had trained for the challenge but couldn’t join on race day because of his surgery, so he decided to run it some months later, individually! But he wasn’t on his own! Mark wrote on his blog:“I now intend to run the route as my own personal ‘race’ – but I don’t have the fitness to do this ‘in one’ (and can’t hang about for...
