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A triathlete who goes by the identify of ‘Ashkickin’ has launched into a problem to run 7 marathons on 7 continents in 7 days with the primary of the 7 marathons happening in Antarctica the place Ashley Paulson set a document for the quickest girls’s marathon time ever in Antarctica. Her 7 marathons on 7 continents in 7 days is a part of the ‘Nice World Race’ the place a bunch of ultra-endurance athletes are tackling the inconceivable.
Ashely Paulson received the primary leg of the Nice World Race by shaving virtually half-hour off the earlier finest girls’s marathon time in Antarctica, ending with a time of three:18:02. On the lads’s aspect, William Maunsell or Eire set a brand new Antarctic document as nicely fishing with a time of two:38:42, almost quarter-hour quicker than the earlier document.
Throughout this really insane bodily problem, ‘Ashkickin’ is documenting the 7 marathons in 7 days throughout 7 continents on her TikTok web page and different socials and her video from Antarctica went viral over the weekend. Whereas many individuals had been hungover from Friday evening and sitting in mattress scrolling on their cellphone they got here throughout this video of a lady operating 7 marathons on 7 continents in 7 days and a whole lot of these individuals began to query their very own laziness.
This prime touch upon her video sums it up for a LOT of individuals. Sarah E. wrote “I’ve by no means associated to something much less” with almost 29K individuals ‘liking’ her remark.
The 7 day marathon throughout 7 continents schedule is wild. The Nice World race has dealt with a whole lot of the logistics for this so opponents can merely enroll and present up the place they’re imagined to be when they’re imagined to be there and run the races. Here’s what the 7 day schedule appears like:
November fifteenth: Wolf’s Fang: AntarcticaNovember sixteenth: Cape City: AfricaNovember seventeenth: Perth: AustraliaNovember 18th: Istanbul: AsiaNovember nineteenth: Istanbul: EuropeNovember twentieth: Cartagena: South AmericaNovember twenty first: Miami: North America
The truth that Turkey straddles two continents and is each a part of Europe and Asia looks like a stretch however it’s two marathons over two days and never as if they’re doing 1 marathon in Istanbul to have it depend for each continents, so on this occasion it really works.
After the Day 2 race in Cape City, Africa, she confirmed how the athletes had been recovering on the aircraft with cryo remedy compression pants throughout their flight to Australia:
For these questioning, it price opponents €49,500 ($52,298) to enter the 7 marathons on 7 continents in 7 days problem with The Nice World Race who handles all the journey and logistics. As we communicate, among the opponents are both operating (or recovering) from the primary of two marathons in Istanbul, Turkey, having accomplished the ‘Asia’ leg of the problem.
For anybody loopy sufficient to wish to try this, take a look at The Nice World Race’s web site right here.
