Nedd Brockmann will leave Perth for Sydney on September 1 on foot, a distance of almost 4,000 kilometres that he intends to cover in fewer than 43 days.
Running 100 kilometres a day for six weeks sounds like the stuff of most people's nightmares.
The former central west NSW local will leave Perth's Cottlesloe Beach for Sydney on September 1 — a distance of almost 4,000 kilometres that he plans to cover in fewer than 43 days.The first was in 2020 when he ran 50 marathons in 50 days and raised more than $100,000 for the Red Cross.The idea was born when he moved from his rural home town of Forbes to the city skyline of Sydney."It was quite overwhelming, confronting. I wanted to help out," he said.
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