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Journey Route
3100 Miles - 111 days
17th June 2007 - 5th October 2007 |
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To Run across America has been my dream since I discovered a website for ultra runners and found an article about a race that went coast-to-coast across America.
I was excited at the prospect of taking such a challenge, but then the doubts started to creep in.
Would it really be possible, at the age of 19, for me to undertake something that a grown man would really need to give a great deal of consideration?
At that age, I had so many other dreams to follow, so I left the idea on the backburner until I believed the time would be right. |
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Now, as an accomplished athlete, having completed ultra
runs from London to Norwich and Scotland to Norfolk,
along with competing in 16 professional boxing matches
including a bout against Olympian Amir Khan - I believe
the time is now here to begin my greatest challenge to
date.
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Run Across America
Route
I shall be taking the same route as the famous Bunion Derbies and Trans America footraces.
The race, of more than 3000 miles, begins from the West coast of America located at Huntington Beach, California crossing the Mojave Desert over to Las Vegas.
From there we head northeast to pick up the Route 40 to Steamboat Springs, before heading |
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the Rocky Mountains via Berthoud Pass at 11,315 feet - then dropping down to Denver, Colorado, the Mile High city.
From this point the route turns due east on Route 36 for over 1,000 miles across ranching and farming country to Indianapolis, Indiana. We will then pick up the course going up Route 40 to Columbus, Ohio and then Wheeling, West Virginia and Hagerstown, Maryland.
Now we start to smell the eastern breeze, but will have to head northeast into Pennsylvania via Reading to New Jersey, and then over the George Washington Bridge into the big apple state of New York City.
We will cross 15 states heading from Los Angeles to New York in approximately 111 days, running around 30 miles a day. |
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