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Moving Mountains: Running from the Atlantic to the Med

Moving Mountains: Running from the Atlantic to the Med

Townsend, Andrew

Paperback

Travel GeneralRunning & JoggingSpain & Portugal

ISBN10: 1916886515
ISBN13: 9781916886513
Publisher: Wide Blue Yonder Media
Published: May 25 2021
Pages: 242
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

I arrived in my mid-fifties, clinically obese, riddled with arthritis and often having to walk with a stick.


I had an epiphany, threw away my stick and resolved to change my life for ever. I started walking every day. The walking turned to running and after two years I had lost a third of my body weight and was fitter than I had been since my twenties. I started running all over Europe and pushed myself harder and harder. In 2015 I ran eight self-supported marathons in eight countries in eight days driving myself between each one - a world's first. As I approached my sixtieth birthday, I wanted to mark it in a really spectacular way. I decided to emulate the world's greatest trail runner, Kilian Jornet, and run across Spain from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean. The journey would take me 525 miles across the Pyrenees climbing a total of more than 125,000 feet - the equivalent of four 'Everests'.

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