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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Run Across America - Ashley Schneider
Mar 22, 2010
San Francisco, USA
Sep 28, 2010
New York, USA
On March 22nd, 2010 Ashley Schneider began her 3,288-mile journey across America, on foot, from San Francisco to New York. Ashley ran nearly a marathon a day, six days a week for six months, to fundraise for Multiple Sclerosis (MS).MS is an unpredictable, often disabling disease of the central nervous system that disrupts the flow of information within the brain, and between the brain and body. With only a motor home and one crew member to aid her, Ashley was able to complete her run on September 28th, 2010. She ran the final steps of her cross country run in...
Double Spartathlon - Mimi Anderson
Sep 25, 2015
Athens, Greece
Sep 28, 2015
Athens, Greece
Mimi Anderson is a British endurance athlete and multiple Guinness World Record Holder. In 2013 Mimi went to Greece with the plan to do the historical and extremely challenging Spartathlon race of 153 miles from Athens to Sparta, and then run back to Athens, both in 36 hours.“Sadly this wasn’t to be as my body turned into a rag doll and I was pulled from the race with 6km to go but I always said that I would go back in 2015 and try again,” Mimi remembers. But in 2015 Mimi was more fortunate and became the first female to...
