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Trans North America Run II - Richard Donovan
Apr 18, 2022
Boston, USA
Jul 31, 2022
San Francisco, USA
On April 18, 2022, Richard Donovan kicked off his Trans USA Run with the Boston Marathon.During his 3 month-adventure he will cross 14 states, east to west, until he reaches San Francisco Bay.An amazing effort as he went through 4 years of knee pain, resulting in having both his knees replaced. The last surgery was just one year earlier, so little time for proper training. But luckily the 56-year old Richard has a lifelong experience of running on all continents in all sorts of seasons and circumstances, including 3 cross-continental runs. Richard was running in honor of Alvin Matthews, a...
Running Hadrian's Wall - Anna McNuff
Apr 18, 2014
Start Hadrian's Wall
Apr 21, 2014
End Hadrian's Wall
In April 2014 Anna and her friend and history teacher Lydia Birch set out to run 86 miles along the Hadrian’s Wall trail in the North of the UK. They ran dressed as Roman soldiers and went into schools in London afterward to tell kids all about the history of Britain’s oldest wall. Hadrian’s Wall, also called the Roman Wall, Picts’ Wall, or Vallum Hadriani in Latin, was a defensive fortification in the Roman province of Britannia, begun in AD 122 in the reign of the emperor Hadrian.For around three centuries, Hadrian’s Wall was a vibrant, multi-cultured frontier sprawling almost...


