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Independent i {Main}, 08 Apr 2015, p3, Keyword: Cocoon Wealth , Journalist: Alexander Ward
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Running all over the world: Briton set to break record in 621 days
The Independent {Main}, 08 Apr 2015, p17, Keyword: Cocoon Wealth , Journalist: ADAM LUSHER
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Cocoon Wealth
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Wednesday 8, April 2015
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KEVIN CARR
EXTREME RUNNER
He looks tired
So would you be if you’d spent
the last year-and-a-bit running
around the world.
You mean like Forrest Gump?
In the ﬁlm Gump ran for a little
over three years across America.
But that is ﬁction. Tomorrow Carr
hopes to break the record for the
fastest world run when he arrives
in Haytor at Dartmoor, completing
the 26,232km (16,300 miles)
journey in 621 days, knocking 24
hours off the 2013 record set by
Australian Tom Denniss.
That’s a marathon a day!
Carr, 34, from Devon, has actually
averaged 31 miles a day rather
than 26, sticking to a routine of
running between a marathonand-a-half or two marathons
a day – for nearly two years.
He has had to take the odd rest,
and ﬂy between continents.
It’s one way to see the world.
His journey has taken
him through 26 countries,
always running east to west,
grappling with blizzards,
blisters, bears and cars.
He must have had a lot of help.
Actually Carr, who was a
barman at the Carpenter’s Arms
in the Dartmoor village of
Ilsington and personal trainer
before he set off, has completed
the run unsupported. For much
of the journey he has pushed
a stroller that contains his food
supplies and camping gear.
Why has he done this?
He explained: “I have always
wanted to see how far I can go.
What’s the limit to our endurance?
I simply want to hold the record as
the fastest man around the world.”
Alexander Ward
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Running all over the world: Briton
set to break record in 621 days
Devon barman
Kevin Carr has
braved deserts
and blizzards to
complete 16,300mile marathon
ADAM LUSHER
After 16,000 miles, 16 pairs
of running shoes, deserts,
blizzards, mountains and an
angry bear, a British barman
is poised to break the record
for the fastest “run around
the world”.
If all goes well, Kevin Carr’s
running circumnavigation
will end tomorrow afternoon
at Haytor on Dartmoor, where
he set off on 28 July 2013.
He will have run 16,300
miles in 621 days, knocking
about 24 hours off the 2013
record set by Australian
Tom Denniss.
Kevin, 34, slogged through
another 50 miles yesterday
towards his overnight stop in
Braunton, Devon.
His spokeswoman said: “If
he beats the record, he will be
over the moon. It is an amazing feat of endurance.”
Kevin has run through 26
countries – on his route across
Europe, India, Australia, New
Zealand, and North and South
America, always heading east
and going through the continents from coast to coast.
Although he is currently
running 50 miles a day, he has
averaged 31 miles throughout
his odyssey. His achievement
is all the more remarkable
because, unlike Denniss, he
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has not had the benefit of a
support team.
“For most of the way round
the world, he was pushing a
stroller in front of him, containing – among other things
– a tent and two spare pairs
of running shoes,” explained
his spokeswoman.
“It was twice his bodyweight. It wasn’t until he got
to Ireland that he was able to
strip down his equipment and
fit it in a rucksack.”
Before embarking on his
journey, Kevin worked as a
personal trainer and as a barman at the Carpenters Arms
in the Dartmouth village
of Ilsington.
As he set out on his odyssey,
he explained: “I have always
wanted to see how far I can
go. What’s the limit to our
endurance? I simply want to
hold the record as the fastest
man around the world. It’s the
purest test of endurance, the
natural limit of planet Earth.
“You simply can’t go further
on our world, unless you begin
running laps.”
Kevin has suffered from
depression and ran to raise
money for the mental health
charity Sane. He wanted to
prove that a mind that is sometimes ill “is not a weak mind”.
To get from Perth to Sydf
l h h d
ney, for example, he had to
run through Australia’s notorious Nullarbor Desert.
Apart from when he was flying between continents, Kevin
allowed himself no rest days
in his schedule. But he came
down with heatstroke while
running between Mumbai and
Chennai in 40C temperatures
and had to spend three days
recovering. He then faced
temperatures of -30C as massive snowstorms buffeted the
US last November.
He came down with flu and
the delay meant he had to
complete his longest day of
running, or get into trouble
with the US authorities.
He had one more day left on
his visa and had to run 65 miles
to get a flight out of Jacksonville Airport in Florida.
Kevin was unescorted by
humans but occasionally animals accompanied him – not
all of them friendly.
While he was running
through Canada’s Northwest
Territories, a black bear started
stalking him. He had to let off
four “bear bangers” before the
bear stopped following him.
Packs of feral dogs chased
him in of Romania but he is
expecting a friendlier reception when he arrives home.
You can’t
go further
on our
world
unless
you start
doing laps
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A RO U ND TH E W O RL D KE VIN C AR R’S EPIC JOURNE Y
CANADA
IRELAND
US
START
July 2013
UK, Haytor,
Dartmoor
EQUATOR
INDIA
AUSTRALIA
CHILE
ARGENTINA
NEW ZEALAND
Kevin Carr
ran to raise
money for
the mental
health
charity Sane
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