Rosie.
Swale-Pope
Bio
Rosie Swale-Pope, MBE (born 2 October 1946) is a British author, adventurer and marathon runner. She successfully completed a five-year run around-the-world. She is the first, to date, to have run a Northern hemisphere run, throuh Eurasia and North America. She set the record for the longest run (women) and managed to raise £250,000 for a charity that supports orphaned children in Russia. She also ran to highlight the importance of early diagnosis for prostate cancer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosie_Swale-Pope
World-run
Main steps
Start 02/10/2003
From to Tenby, Great Britain to Chelyabinsk, Russia
Europe
From Chelyabinsk, Russia, to Magadan, Russia
Eurasia
From Cape of Prince of Wales, Alaska to Truro, Canada
North America
End 25/08/2008
From Scrabster, Scotland to Tenby, Great Britain
Europe
Total run: 32,186km, 1,789 days