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officially marking
Today, the 19th of March, 2013, marks the day my dad has officially run 200 races.
This includes half marathons, 14kms, full marathons, ultra marathons, ultra-ultra marathons and any other distance race that he has done.
He started running about 15 years ago. His 200th race was the Great Ocean Road ultra-marathon, which is 45km long, starting at Lorne and ending at Apollo Bay, running along the Great Ocean Road.
Today he ran it in a time of 3 hours and 31 minutes which is absolutely amazing and crazy, but wow!! (This also beats his last years time of 3.36).
His distance over the last 15 years is just over 32,000 km. he records (pretty much) every race he's done and the distance and the time it took in a log book of his.
Like I do with my books.
His longest race would have to be the Comrades, which is +-90km, from Pietermaritzburg to Kwazulu Ntel (or vice versa) in South Africa. He's done it twice and I think he plans on doing it again next year.
Inspiring.
Life goal?
To run a marathon, or at least a half marathon with my dad.
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