Act Daily News
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Australian Erchana Murray-Bartlett accomplished 150 marathons in 150 days, working 6,300 kilometers (3,900 miles) from the nation’s northern tip to the southern metropolis of Melbourne in what may very well be a brand new world report.
The 32-year-old runner crossed the end line on Monday after a feat that, if confirmed, will beat the earlier world report of 106 consecutive marathons set by British nationwide Kate Jayden final yr. Act Daily News has reached out to Guinness World Records to substantiate Murray-Bartlett’s official standing.
While Jayden sought to lift cash for refugees, Murray-Bartlett accomplished her run – documented on Instagram – to lift consciousness of the threats to Australia’s biodiversity.
“Australia is fantastic, it’s so beautiful, and that was one of the key things I wanted to get out of this run, it was to showcase Australia’s beauty to the world – we have globally significant national parks, the Great Barrier Reef, and exploring them on foot is such a unique, different way to do it,” Murray-Bartlett informed Act Daily News affiliate Nine News.
Murray-Bartlett raised greater than 118,000 Australian {dollars} ($82,130) for the Wilderness Society, with all income going in the direction of conserving Australia’s native animals.
Australia, which has one of many world’s worst information on extinctions, final yr introduced a 10-year plan to attempt to stop any extra species from dying out within the nation. The nation’s wildlife has suffered the consequences of pure disasters and the local weather disaster, together with catastrophic bushfires in 2019-20 that killed or displaced almost 3 billion animals, based on estimates from the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).
After setting off from Cape York in Queensland in August, Murray-Bartlett ran 42.2 kilometers (26.2 miles) every day, enduring scorching warmth and storms as she crossed filth roads, rivers and seashores.
“It’s very exhausting, I’ll give you that but I feel very blessed have been out to get to the finish line,” she mentioned on Monday.
While Murray-Bartlett’s run took her from the nation’s north to south, one other Australian, Nedd Brockmann, ran virtually 4,000 kilometers (2,500 miles) over 47 days from west to east in 2022.
Brockmann set off from Cottesloe Beach in Perth and acquired a hero’s welcome on his arrival at Sydney’s Bondi Beach in October, elevating 2 million Australian {dollars} ($1.26 million) – virtually double his preliminary goal – for homeless charity We Are Mobilise.
Earlier in 2022, Fay Cunningham and Emma Petrie, each from the United Kingdom, matched the world report for many consecutive days to run a marathon distance within the girls’s class, working alongside one another for 106 days between February and June, based on Guinness World Records.