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Seven marathons on 7 continents in 7 days
Taking it 'one day at a time' works for 59-year-old British adventurer

"FOUR months after a heart attack and double-bypass operation, explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes yesterday completed the near-impossible feat of running seven marathons on seven continents in seven days.

"Sir Ranulph, 59, and his running partner, Dr Michael Stroud, 49, left behind the lonely struggle of their previous six efforts when they joined about 34,000 participants in the New York marathon, on a course that took them round the city’s five boroughs.

"The run made North America the seventh continent - after South America, Antarctica, Australia, Asia, Europe, and Africa - in which the two men have completed a punishing marathon in the space of a week.

"Wearing shirt number 33122, Sir Ranulph completed the run of 26 miles and 385 yards in five hours and 25 minutes, finishing in Manhattan’s Central Park ...

"'We took it bit by bit. If we thought when we were running, that we would have another marathon the next day we couldn’t have done it.' ..."
Source: The Scotsman