On Monday, Jan. 16, Erchana Murray-Bartlett awoke early, ate a bowl of cereal and a banana, and began operating, as she had been doing for the earlier 149 days. This present day was her final, although, and a celebration was so as as soon as she hit her ultimate vacation spot of Melbourne. Murray-Bartlett raised funds and consciousness for Australia’s endangered animals all through her run, far surpassing her preliminary objective of $62, 000 AUS with an finish complete of $128, 000.
Murray-Bartlett started operating from Cape York, Australia, to Melbourne (the tip of the toe of Australia, inspiring the title of her fundraiser, “tip to toe 2022”) on a heat morning in August. On Dec. 3, 107 days later, she achieved certainly one of her objectives–setting the Guinness World Report (GWR) for operating essentially the most marathons in a row by a girl. She had no plan to cease till she reached marathon 150 and Murray-Bartlett doesn’t let something get in her manner.
When Murray-Bartlett surpassed the GWR (at 107 consecutive marathons), we managed to talk along with her in between operating, restoration and spreading consciousness (she crams quite a bit right into a day) and you may learn that right here.
At that time her journey was not but full. We caught up with Murray-Bartlett one week put up–run to listen to all about ultimate third of her cross-Australia marathon-a-day accomplishment.
CR: Congrats isn’t actually sufficient to embody such an accomplishment! What are the stats out of your journey?
All of the enjoyable stats are right here:
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- Funds raised: $128,000 AUS–for The Wilderness Society.
- Whole distance: 6336.62 km
- Time: 632 hrs 32 minutes
- Avg. coronary heart fee: 125 bpm
- Common tempo: 5.59 min/km
- Quickest tempo: 3:41 min/km
- Whole variety of bananas consumed: 230
- Whole elevation ascended: 54,624 metres
- Whole elevation descent: 55,732 metres
- Max elevation: 1902m
CR: How do you’re feeling proper now, mentally and bodily?
Surprisingly my physique felt nice for the primary few days, proper up till I dropped my household again off to the airport (three days later). I even went for a small run within the morning. That afternoon, although, I slept for about two hours, and about 10 hours that night time.
I’m really feeling an increasing number of drained with every day that passes, which is reinforcing the necessity to respect restoration. It feels very unusual waking up in broad daylight and doing nothing besides strolling down the road for a espresso.
I’m already enthusiastic about methods to arrange the following challenge, and my thoughts must hearken to my physique, which is screaming at it to decelerate. I’m reminding myself that it’s OK to decelerate for a short while no less than.
CR: Neatest thing you ate the whole run?
My associate is vegetarian and as he did 90 per cent of the cooking, I predominately am too. I was in a position to run the whole factor 99 per cent plant-based and really feel glad and wholesome the entire manner. We had a rotating menu of lentil pasta, chickpea curry and tempeh stir fry, as our cooking choices have been a stovetop.
One key standout meal occurred after we camped in a website that provided wood-fired pizzas. When you introduced it, they might cook dinner it of their large open-fire oven. We made the dough from scratch, handled ourselves to fancy toppings (olives, sundried tomatoes and goat feta) and even opened a bottle of crimson wine.
I additionally ate cereal each morning which I’d by no means do in regular life and cherished it– banana, chai seeds, peanut butter, yum!
CR: Hardest day? Or simply largest problem?
My worst day of operating was round day 55 in Bowen, QLD. The route took me 42K down a busy freeway plagued by roadworks eradicating the one shoulder to run down. I had automobiles flying previous me with no room to misstep and vans and building tractors continuously stopping my circulation.
It was raining with a headwind the whole manner, and I misplaced my headphones 10 km in and watched them get run over by a passing automotive. I even obtained relentlessly swooped by a magpie. I bear in mind ending and pondering “if tomorrow is like this, I’m not going to make it.”
In hindsight, nowadays make you admire the attractive runs, however it certain was a battle that day. It was the one day I felt like I used to be going to battle with the run, relatively than embracing the journey.
CR: What’s subsequent for you in life and operating?
Proper now, I’m taking a second to replicate and recuperate with out placing an excessive amount of stress on myself. I had 4 to 5 hours of pondering time on the market on the street every day and have a few thousand concepts for what’s subsequent.
Now, I have to focus and take into consideration what’s finest for my physique and for me as a runner and human. I do know that no matter it’s, it’ll have a key deal with conservation.
Oh, and I’m at present importing all of the proof to Guinness to have the file verified. It takes a very long time to obtain and add 150 gps information.
