The man who ran across Australia in record time will today embark on a new adventure, running over 1600km across 10 days.
The man who ran across Australia in record time, Nedd Brockmann, will today embark on a new adventure, running over 1600km across 10 days to raise money for charity.
In order to break the current record set in 1988, he needs to run 160 kilometres a day for 10 days, totalling 1610km on foot.He will be running on the Sydney Olympic Park athletic track, meaning he needs to run 403 laps of the 400m track every single day. "It would be ridiculous of me not to honour the people who have gone before me as I understand the depths one must go to achieve such a thing.
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