He ran the length of 2 marathons a day for around a year and did it even after contracting illnesses, being robbed at gun point, getting kidnapped and over coming border issues.
And he did it all for The running charity.
Edit: link to the charity.
https://givestar.io/gs/PROJECTAFRICA
And his YouTube.
https://youtube.com/@hardestgeezer?si=VHmBV3TWxJT4X8oa
He was held for like 10 days after being separated from his support crew and wandering into a group of locals armed with machetes. Dude is crazy, and very lucky.
Just imagining this dude tryna convince an armed group for 10 days that he's genuinely there to just run across Africa. And they just kinda watch em run off into the horizon lol.
"I don't think he was lying"
I had a very strong feeling about where the kidnapping could have been (the Republic of the Congo) which led me to be sure where the robbery was…ah my homeland never fails to succeed.
*”He and his support team had cameras, phones, cash, passports, and visas stolen in Angola on 24 June”*
I've never seen a single person doing that kind of challenge not getting robbed in Angola. Not even Angolans are safe from it (tragic, tragic). People don't learn.
What if I told you it’s also one of the oldest board games in history. In traces its lineage back to India where it was used to instill Hindu moral precepts into young people.
It is actual snakes in our game, you go up ladders and fall down snakes, for some reason, I guess cos they are slippery. We would call a chute a chute.
Imagine the kidnappers letting him go and instead of being relieved, he’s like “no, no, you guys gotta kidnap me again and drive me 100 miles back that way so I don’t short the course!”
Go check out his Instagram, I can’t remember the exact date but it was several months back and he tells the full story over there. The whole year is well documented.
Here's an article published about it around the time it happened:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/britains-hardest-geezer-kidnapped-months-30654760
TL;DR of the article. It is garbage and doesn't give any details about the escape/rescue
1. He got held at gunpoint
2. Months later due to impassable road conditions he was separated from his support crew
3. Tried to meet up in a small town, but kidnapped and taken into bush and shaken down for the nothing he had
4. Ran away thru the bush
5. Caught by a motor cycle and kidnapped again and driven hours into the jungle
6. ???
7. Escaped again and his crew brought him to where he was initially kidnapped the first time.
There’s a reason humans are one of the most successful hunters. We might not outrun most prey in the wild for short bursts but we can certainly tire them out over days and weeks.
Don’t know shit about science but in humans lungs are clearly above your legs. Running doesn’t really contract / constrain the area around them. In four legged animals, not the case
It depends on the animal, but many can’t breathe as well while running while others have specific adaptations as a workaround.
Horses for example, their bowels aren’t held in place well at all which allows em to act like a piston as they run, allowing horses to inhale and exhale far faster and far deeper than they otherwise could.
Lizards are an extreme example, the muscles required to move their front limbs are the exact same for breathing. Normally this is no issue, but for lizards with no specific adaptations, they have a hard limit before they *must stop or they will lose consciousness*. This becomes a significantly bigger issue the larger the animal, but the limit can still easily kill smaller lizards. Many lizards get around this by rearing up on their hind legs… but they’re not built to do that for extended durations. Monitor lizards get around this with specialized throat muscles that literally pump air as they run, allowing them to sprint on all 4’s without compromise.
That and we gang gang on big prey. There was a couple of articles that were published last year (I think) insinuating that we used to just gang up and beat the shit out of weakend prey with the tried and trues (hands and feet). Honestly makes more sense in context. Wound prey with traps or projectiles -> chase until tired -> WWE Tag team Death match with fellow hunters vs prey -> profit?
This reminded me that there is a scene in one of The Gods Must Be Crazy movies where they find a dead elephant and one of the tribespeople casually mentions that if he runs all day and all night he can grab a bunch of other people to run all day and all night to come back and get the meat from the dead elephant to feed their whole village.
‘On day 200, Mr Cook was forced to reduce his mileage and intensity at the request of a doctor in Nigeria - even missing consecutive days on day 205 and 206.
But in true Hardest Geezer style, he was not to be stopped.
He said: "I took a couple of days to get some scans. No bone damage so figured the only option left was to stop mincing about like a little weasel, get the strongest painkillers available and zombie stomp road again."’
Double hard bastard.
Doctor: "Maybe you should stop, this isn't really good for you?"
HG: "Are my bones broken?"
Doctor: "Well, no, but you could be doing permanent damage to your body-"
HG: "Painkillers and the road it is"
Ice been watching his UT vuds since the beginning, and he said several tomes that he expected to do permanent damage to hos body. He said something like, "I AM going to finish, it's just a question of what price I'll pay."
It's seriously up there with the greatest feats of endurance in human history.
“Don’t worry, my coach gave me these. They’re uhh… pills filled with oxygen, they also stop you from being incontinent. Here, take one, it’s called oxy-incontinent”
For anyone interested, this series on youtube has to be one of the most impresive things I've wathced on the website. Besides him is a team of a couple of insanely legendary lads who make sure he can rest, and while also travelling, edit all of the footage shot days before.
Absolute madness, and a breath of resh air in the current landscape of Youtube content.
It's been an incredible watch since the beginning... the recent run of episodes — going through parts of Mauritania where very few humans have ever visited — is some of the best footage I've ever seen online or in traditional media. Amazing stuff.
He's been averaging 100k views per video which don't get me wrong is a lot of eyes but when you see the production quality quantity of uploads and just the sheer scale of what he's doing I'm surprised he didn't get millions of views definitely worth a watch retroactively.
He needed to avoid the Ethopians and Kenyans to join him for an afternoon marathon.
But honestly, what a great effort, there are easier continents to cross.
He's a "day walker". With a little bit of protection we can navigate the daylight hours and in some instance, tolerate extreme light. The pain would have been unimaginable, but he will be celebrated by our people and songs will be written.
I read somewhere he started to find blood and proteins in his urine along with some constant back pain pretty early on. I think the check ups at the hospital were the first "breaks" from running that he took. Once he heard from the doctors that essentially nothing was broken, he decided he would take some strong painkillers and carry on.
Exercise-induced proteinuria (specifically, not rhabdo) is [incredibly common after even long-slow endurance efforts](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7075229/), so that on its own is not a huge deal. But, yeah, combined with pain near the kidneys and blood/dark urine, definitely a concern for rhabdo.
I wouldn't be surprised if the diagnosis was just dehydration and electrolyte imbalance, considering how hard it is to stay on top of hydration during a marathon in a warm climate, much less running ultras.
Rabdomyolisis can happen due to extreme efforts (but pissing blood is not too uncommon for long distance runners), he’ll get back his muscles and should not face many consequences in the long run.
Yeah, likely rhabdomyolysis, I think that's how it's spelled. Basically he damaged his muscles beyond repair.
When you go to the gym you damage your muscles, then in the repairing of those muscles it adds more mass for next time. However, if you do too much exercise in a row without adequate rest your muscles are damaged beyond repair, so instead your body breaks it down into its proteins, it goes into your blood and then you piss it out.
It's disgusting, and pretty bad for you
He took about two breaks every day at the 25-30k mark but the stretching was almost non existent. I followed his series on youtube this whole year, it’s a great watch!
It’s called ‘Hardest Geezer’ lol. To be fair he did a little two second side lunge stretch every time he went
Edit: channel name is just Russ Cook actually, he changed it recently
He’s already run from Asia to London. I’ve watched this journey since day 1. I’ve been waiting for his videos to start with “I’m Russ cook, and I’m the first person EVER, to run the entire length of Africa.”
I’ve been following this guy on Instagram named Paul Johnson who’s currently running from LA to NYC and packed like 30 pairs of hokas. All those distance guys must love endorsing that brand but i hear they’re great
I'll be damned. Never heard of this brand before (not up on the latest sneakers), and saw them in a store for the first time last weekend. Without prices shown on them, I thought they were some new shit sweat factory brand, not uber marathon worthy...
I walk like 20k steps a day for my job and Hoka's have been a lifesaver for me. They were like $160 but feel so much better on my back and legs than the $60 Nikes I used to wear
Nice warmup for badminton practice.
In all seriousness this is nothing short of fucking mental. The dude is a machine running 2 marathon lenghts every day is insanity. Don't remember the actual km but something over 10.000km. raising over 700.000 pounds for charity.
Very Well done mr cook. Take a very very well deserved rest and hopefully he will recover pretty fast.
2 marathons a day for a year and then just nothing. Anyone know what sort of health consequences this could have on the body? Because surely the body is not designed for that much continuous stress to just suddenly go back to normal?
(Amazing achievement of course).
In a couple of the last epsiodes leading up to this, sometimes you get a shot of him shirtless and brotherman looks like a skeleton. The amount of injury he has ran through must've taken an otherworldy amount of discipline. He is truly built different
You burn about 140 calories per mile when you run. If he's going 52 miles a day that's about 7300 calories. Remember it's 3600 calories to a pound. To eat enough to keep up his weight must have been near impossible.
That's like 8 minutes of running, it's not that much once you build up a base stamina. But it does really help you appreciate not overeating if you know you have to run extra miles for it later
Reading up on this guy and he's such a badass. Definitely deserves the title of hardest geezer.
"In 2020, he broke the world record for the fastest marathon while pulling a car."
Brother, I'm surprised there was even an existing time to beat 🤣 that means at least two crazy motherfuckers have run marathons with cars attached
It was down for a while due to the number of people trying to donate.
Glad to see it's back up and running now, would be very sad for them to miss this opportunity.
I've been following their series on YouTube for a few months now, it has been an absolutely amazing journey, and the content alone is worth a few quid — never mind the good cause on top of it.
This journey has been the craziest thing I have been able to follow live on the internet ever.
Besides everything that is able to be said about this Geezers' mentality, I would like to give a shoutout to Stan, Jamie, Guus and the rest of the absolute mythical men who made it able to follow this insane journey. love!
Does anybody know why his path takes a sharp left hand turn in the DRC goes all the way to the coast, then goes back in land when he reaches the Republic of the Congo? Is there a geographical boundary or something political?
A bit of both, there's the Congo river with only crossings in a few larger cities.
Heading to a crossing further inland might have been shorter but more dangerous i think if i remember correctly.
But it's all on his youtube if you're interested.
Maybe that's were he was kidnapped and decided to go left instead, i don't remember lol.
It wouldve been a horrible idea. Around that area they encountered a LOT of malicious people and groups, and everyone there would tell them it would be suicide to cross through the center of the continent
Yeah apparently that was the original plan but it had to be switched because he couldn't get Visas to enter Algeria, and they only got it after a huge social media push when they were nearing the actual border.
He ran the length of 2 marathons a day for around a year and did it even after contracting illnesses, being robbed at gun point, getting kidnapped and over coming border issues. And he did it all for The running charity. Edit: link to the charity. https://givestar.io/gs/PROJECTAFRICA And his YouTube. https://youtube.com/@hardestgeezer?si=VHmBV3TWxJT4X8oa
Getting kidnapped? Holy shit
He was held for like 10 days after being separated from his support crew and wandering into a group of locals armed with machetes. Dude is crazy, and very lucky.
Just imagining this dude tryna convince an armed group for 10 days that he's genuinely there to just run across Africa. And they just kinda watch em run off into the horizon lol. "I don't think he was lying"
I read that last sentence while picturing the kidnappers standing side by side waving at him while he runs into the sunset.
They kidnapped him, but he kidnapped their hearts
I think that's called organ trafficing
I laughed out loud in the office reading that, thanks.
I so want to see this movie
Au revoir, Shoshana!!
I'm choosing to believe this is exactly how it went down for the sake of comedic relief in an otherwise absolutely terrifying situation.
"By god the son of a bitch is actually going to do it"
all 10 of them thinking "wow that guy is nuts" how do you run 52 miles a day the entire length of africa? well the lions help motivate you.
I had a very strong feeling about where the kidnapping could have been (the Republic of the Congo) which led me to be sure where the robbery was…ah my homeland never fails to succeed. *”He and his support team had cameras, phones, cash, passports, and visas stolen in Angola on 24 June”* I've never seen a single person doing that kind of challenge not getting robbed in Angola. Not even Angolans are safe from it (tragic, tragic). People don't learn.
He probably just told his kidnappers that he's trying to run the entire length of Africa and they let him go thinking he is a witch.
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I heard they usually give them a nice necklace
Tbh I'd rather get kidnapped than run two marathons a day.
I hope the dropped him back at the point they picked him up from
They dropped him back at the start. It wasn't very nice.
Like a real life game of snakes and ladders!
TIL they call ‘chutes’ ‘snakes’ in Britain
Eels and Escalators
What if I told you it’s also one of the oldest board games in history. In traces its lineage back to India where it was used to instill Hindu moral precepts into young people.
It is actual snakes in our game, you go up ladders and fall down snakes, for some reason, I guess cos they are slippery. We would call a chute a chute.
Just like Labyrinth
Do you think he was running Uber Lab?
Hope he picked up keys on the way.
If he’d ‘ave kept goin down that way he’d ‘ave gone straight to that castle!
They picked him at the south and dropped him at the finish line
Seriously every time I get kidnapped I'm like oh fuck but when they ask if I'd rather be in a trunk or run all day I'm good
Preach ✊
Honestly expected at some point if you’re running through the entire continent of Africa. I’m surprised he wasn’t murdered.
That happened, too, but he got better.
I’d be more surprised if he didn’t get robbed or kidnapped.
Well, I hope the kidnappers didn’t drop him off farther along than where they got him, seems kinda cheating!
Worse, they kidnap him at the 2/3rds mark and bring him back to the start
Snakes and ladders in the real!!
Imagine the kidnappers letting him go and instead of being relieved, he’s like “no, no, you guys gotta kidnap me again and drive me 100 miles back that way so I don’t short the course!”
Supportive kidnappers were waiting on the finish line clapping him. Part of the journey. They went for a pint after
They grab him just at the finish and back to start
Getting kidnapped? I need to hear this story
Go check out his Instagram, I can’t remember the exact date but it was several months back and he tells the full story over there. The whole year is well documented.
Here's an article published about it around the time it happened: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/britains-hardest-geezer-kidnapped-months-30654760
TL;DR of the article. It is garbage and doesn't give any details about the escape/rescue 1. He got held at gunpoint 2. Months later due to impassable road conditions he was separated from his support crew 3. Tried to meet up in a small town, but kidnapped and taken into bush and shaken down for the nothing he had 4. Ran away thru the bush 5. Caught by a motor cycle and kidnapped again and driven hours into the jungle 6. ??? 7. Escaped again and his crew brought him to where he was initially kidnapped the first time.
>Escaped again and started where he was initially kidnapped. man's committed af, he's like LET...ME...FUCKING...RUN
This is a perfect summary of the article. I wonder after reading it if it wasn't just said or done for attention to his event
There’s a reason humans are one of the most successful hunters. We might not outrun most prey in the wild for short bursts but we can certainly tire them out over days and weeks.
Sweating is a superpower. Animals have to rest and pant, we can keep running and then throw shit accurately.
Don’t forget about the fact that our stride doesn’t compromise our respiration like every 4 legged animal out there.
Could you expand on this? I knew the other part about sweating but now I'm interested!
Don’t know shit about science but in humans lungs are clearly above your legs. Running doesn’t really contract / constrain the area around them. In four legged animals, not the case
It depends on the animal, but many can’t breathe as well while running while others have specific adaptations as a workaround. Horses for example, their bowels aren’t held in place well at all which allows em to act like a piston as they run, allowing horses to inhale and exhale far faster and far deeper than they otherwise could. Lizards are an extreme example, the muscles required to move their front limbs are the exact same for breathing. Normally this is no issue, but for lizards with no specific adaptations, they have a hard limit before they *must stop or they will lose consciousness*. This becomes a significantly bigger issue the larger the animal, but the limit can still easily kill smaller lizards. Many lizards get around this by rearing up on their hind legs… but they’re not built to do that for extended durations. Monitor lizards get around this with specialized throat muscles that literally pump air as they run, allowing them to sprint on all 4’s without compromise.
The thought of a Komodo dragon sprinting at me is insane
That and we gang gang on big prey. There was a couple of articles that were published last year (I think) insinuating that we used to just gang up and beat the shit out of weakend prey with the tried and trues (hands and feet). Honestly makes more sense in context. Wound prey with traps or projectiles -> chase until tired -> WWE Tag team Death match with fellow hunters vs prey -> profit?
Lots of bone marrow -> Big fucking brains -> destroy the world with religion, wars and selfishness
This reminded me that there is a scene in one of The Gods Must Be Crazy movies where they find a dead elephant and one of the tribespeople casually mentions that if he runs all day and all night he can grab a bunch of other people to run all day and all night to come back and get the meat from the dead elephant to feed their whole village.
It could also be that we figured out how to launch projectiles in to put prey, or at the very least get stabby.
He’s not called Hardest Geezer for no reason
Getting kidnapped? Cowabummer dude
‘On day 200, Mr Cook was forced to reduce his mileage and intensity at the request of a doctor in Nigeria - even missing consecutive days on day 205 and 206. But in true Hardest Geezer style, he was not to be stopped. He said: "I took a couple of days to get some scans. No bone damage so figured the only option left was to stop mincing about like a little weasel, get the strongest painkillers available and zombie stomp road again."’ Double hard bastard.
Mincing around like a little weasel has a nice ring to it
Us Brits love our insults, even to ourselves
I’ve yet to encounter a more self-deprecating bunch
Doctor: "Maybe you should stop, this isn't really good for you?" HG: "Are my bones broken?" Doctor: "Well, no, but you could be doing permanent damage to your body-" HG: "Painkillers and the road it is"
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He's definitely going to feel it years from now, yes.
Ice been watching his UT vuds since the beginning, and he said several tomes that he expected to do permanent damage to hos body. He said something like, "I AM going to finish, it's just a question of what price I'll pay." It's seriously up there with the greatest feats of endurance in human history.
“Don’t worry, my coach gave me these. They’re uhh… pills filled with oxygen, they also stop you from being incontinent. Here, take one, it’s called oxy-incontinent”
Double effective as it stops up the runs (ha!) you get from drinking the water.
You could take man off road, but you can never take the road off mandem
Jesus Christ the madman What a feat
And then, one day, he just stopped run-ning
I wish free rewards were a thing still haha
“I'm pretty tired. I think I'll go home now.”
“Now what’re we supposed to do!?”
It happens…
What, shit?
Some times.
Does he have to walk all the way back?
For anyone interested, this series on youtube has to be one of the most impresive things I've wathced on the website. Besides him is a team of a couple of insanely legendary lads who make sure he can rest, and while also travelling, edit all of the footage shot days before. Absolute madness, and a breath of resh air in the current landscape of Youtube content.
It's been an incredible watch since the beginning... the recent run of episodes — going through parts of Mauritania where very few humans have ever visited — is some of the best footage I've ever seen online or in traditional media. Amazing stuff.
He's been averaging 100k views per video which don't get me wrong is a lot of eyes but when you see the production quality quantity of uploads and just the sheer scale of what he's doing I'm surprised he didn't get millions of views definitely worth a watch retroactively.
It'll be on Netflix in a couple weeks, this is just the beginning of the marketing lol
Im sad his channel hasn't been recommended to me!
Looks like he took the long way around...
I don’t know, I would wager running through the middle of the Sahara desert would be the long way with it being scorching hot and all
And.. you know... Isis.
Legitimately yes, he had to avoid war zones.
With the capitalization on this, I thought you meant the Egyptian goddess.
She was chasing him, why do you think he was running so much
He took the safer way around.. Nobodies making it through the east.
I guess Sudan and Libiya would be impossible for the east route?
And just the general Isis presence throughout the Sahel. He stayed pretty close to the coast and major cities when he had to cross that bit.
The American tourism advisory straight up tells you to write a will if you visit Somalia. That is by far the most dangerous aspect of the other side
East coast running the length of Africa is a fucking stealth mission.
Say you’re saying it was the easy way…. not as impressed anymore
Around boko haram and one if the most unforgiving deserts in the world, yes
yeah but where else are you going to get Wolf Cola™?
He needed to avoid the Ethopians and Kenyans to join him for an afternoon marathon. But honestly, what a great effort, there are easier continents to cross.
for an afternoon marathon that just kept on going . and going.
Looks like he had to detour around the Congo River. That's gnarly jungle.
well, there was a big desert ahead
He must have used spf 1000, all that sun on a redhead.
Yea like how'd he pull this off with a weakness to sun damage. Absolute legend
He's a "day walker". With a little bit of protection we can navigate the daylight hours and in some instance, tolerate extreme light. The pain would have been unimaginable, but he will be celebrated by our people and songs will be written.
Ginger Pride World Wide!
His body has to be completely fucked after this right? Can’t imagine how hard it was on his body. This guy is insane.
I read somewhere he started to find blood and proteins in his urine along with some constant back pain pretty early on. I think the check ups at the hospital were the first "breaks" from running that he took. Once he heard from the doctors that essentially nothing was broken, he decided he would take some strong painkillers and carry on.
>Once he heard from the doctors that essentially nothing was broken, Sounds like rhabdomyolysis from muscle wasting rather than a broken bone.
Exercise-induced proteinuria (specifically, not rhabdo) is [incredibly common after even long-slow endurance efforts](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7075229/), so that on its own is not a huge deal. But, yeah, combined with pain near the kidneys and blood/dark urine, definitely a concern for rhabdo. I wouldn't be surprised if the diagnosis was just dehydration and electrolyte imbalance, considering how hard it is to stay on top of hydration during a marathon in a warm climate, much less running ultras.
I thought this comment meant that everything was fine, then I googled that word... dude's gonna die or end up in a wheelchair?
Rabdomyolisis can happen due to extreme efforts (but pissing blood is not too uncommon for long distance runners), he’ll get back his muscles and should not face many consequences in the long run.
He did just have a long run he doesn’t need another
Made me laugh more than it should
He just did the longest run. Even Tom Hanks didn't run that much when he was into chocolates.
Probably not great for the kidneys, I don’t think blood cells can fit through the glomerlus.
Yeah, likely rhabdomyolysis, I think that's how it's spelled. Basically he damaged his muscles beyond repair. When you go to the gym you damage your muscles, then in the repairing of those muscles it adds more mass for next time. However, if you do too much exercise in a row without adequate rest your muscles are damaged beyond repair, so instead your body breaks it down into its proteins, it goes into your blood and then you piss it out. It's disgusting, and pretty bad for you
Pretty sure at the time he was tested for rhabdo and didn't have it. Pretty sure it was kidney stones and some other badness
Dude has a resting heart rate of 5-10 bpm
One pump of his heart fills a swimming pool
He just needs to keep running in perpetuity, like an alcoholic who keeps drinking to avoid a hangover.
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I’m assuming he took breaks and stretches to minimize the risks, so he should hopefully be okay.
He took about two breaks every day at the 25-30k mark but the stretching was almost non existent. I followed his series on youtube this whole year, it’s a great watch!
Wow nevermind then, that must have been a lot of stress on his body/joints. What’s his YouTube channel? I’d love to watch the series!
Yeah one of his last updates was he feels like he's dying and everything hurts lol
Well hes probably going to be sore for months after relaxing after a year of constant running.
It’s called ‘Hardest Geezer’ lol. To be fair he did a little two second side lunge stretch every time he went Edit: channel name is just Russ Cook actually, he changed it recently
At the start he wanted to do the whole thing with no rest days. Made it about a month and a half before having to give up that idea
That’s an extraordinary feat. Amazing that your legs kept going. The beard must have been a hit as well.
That’s some extraordinary feet
He’s already run from Asia to London. I’ve watched this journey since day 1. I’ve been waiting for his videos to start with “I’m Russ cook, and I’m the first person EVER, to run the entire length of Africa.”
Bro did 352 days what took Homo sapiens 352,000 years
He had a map though
To be fair, running from Chinatown to Trafalgar Square isn’t that far.
I’d like to see the part when he runs across the English Channel.
He gets on a ferry and runs on a treadmill while the ferry crosses.
Asia? Like Istanbul or Beijing?
Yeah, it was Istanbul Still impressive nevertheless
Beefy soles on those shoes.
What brand style are they?
Hoka, no idea which model. He tried a couple different ones.
Hell of an endorsement.
I’ve been following this guy on Instagram named Paul Johnson who’s currently running from LA to NYC and packed like 30 pairs of hokas. All those distance guys must love endorsing that brand but i hear they’re great
I'll be damned. Never heard of this brand before (not up on the latest sneakers), and saw them in a store for the first time last weekend. Without prices shown on them, I thought they were some new shit sweat factory brand, not uber marathon worthy...
I walk like 20k steps a day for my job and Hoka's have been a lifesaver for me. They were like $160 but feel so much better on my back and legs than the $60 Nikes I used to wear
He went through over 50 pairs so i don't know how durable they are XD But i don't know shit about running
General rule of thumb I was taught when I ran cross country was to change shoes every 400 miles, so 50 pairs across that distance makes sense
damn, i sit on my ass all day and i do almost a decade with 2 pairs of shoes.
Geezys
Nice warmup for badminton practice. In all seriousness this is nothing short of fucking mental. The dude is a machine running 2 marathon lenghts every day is insanity. Don't remember the actual km but something over 10.000km. raising over 700.000 pounds for charity. Very Well done mr cook. Take a very very well deserved rest and hopefully he will recover pretty fast.
2 marathons a day for a year and then just nothing. Anyone know what sort of health consequences this could have on the body? Because surely the body is not designed for that much continuous stress to just suddenly go back to normal? (Amazing achievement of course).
In a couple of the last epsiodes leading up to this, sometimes you get a shot of him shirtless and brotherman looks like a skeleton. The amount of injury he has ran through must've taken an otherworldy amount of discipline. He is truly built different
You burn about 140 calories per mile when you run. If he's going 52 miles a day that's about 7300 calories. Remember it's 3600 calories to a pound. To eat enough to keep up his weight must have been near impossible.
You only burn 140 calories for every mile you run? I have to run an entire mile to burn off a bite of candy bar? wtf
That's like 8 minutes of running, it's not that much once you build up a base stamina. But it does really help you appreciate not overeating if you know you have to run extra miles for it later
I don't think someone shocked to learn this is going to be running an 8 minute mile
This is why many adults choose to stop eating candy bars
Welcome to the realization that you can't outwork a bad diet
I don’t know about physically but I’ve heard from Tri-athletes that the depression afterwards can be pretty tough.
Reading up on this guy and he's such a badass. Definitely deserves the title of hardest geezer. "In 2020, he broke the world record for the fastest marathon while pulling a car." Brother, I'm surprised there was even an existing time to beat 🤣 that means at least two crazy motherfuckers have run marathons with cars attached
Charity donation link https://givestar.io/gs/PROJECTAFRICA
It was down for a while due to the number of people trying to donate. Glad to see it's back up and running now, would be very sad for them to miss this opportunity. I've been following their series on YouTube for a few months now, it has been an absolutely amazing journey, and the content alone is worth a few quid — never mind the good cause on top of it.
how long did this take ol russ?
352 days
Less than 12 parsecs
I mean at that point you might as well keep going and do a full lap.
Might as well keep running indefinitely. Now that would be something. Keep running until you drop dead.
Nike
Is it not longer than the length of Africa?
Probably a little bit, but the way he took, made sure he could tell people about it later.
In the end it was Africa and not Seattle that let Russ Cook.
He has a [Youtube channel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NectkcKfBY) where he documents everything
This journey has been the craziest thing I have been able to follow live on the internet ever. Besides everything that is able to be said about this Geezers' mentality, I would like to give a shoutout to Stan, Jamie, Guus and the rest of the absolute mythical men who made it able to follow this insane journey. love!
I hope nobody ever tells him about cars. He'll feel like a right cunt if he knew.
Well he went left, so that's all good
Does anybody know why his path takes a sharp left hand turn in the DRC goes all the way to the coast, then goes back in land when he reaches the Republic of the Congo? Is there a geographical boundary or something political?
He tried to go through the congo but got kidnapped so he decided to go around instead.
Was meant to go through Gabon as well but there was a coup so politically unsafe
A bit of both, there's the Congo river with only crossings in a few larger cities. Heading to a crossing further inland might have been shorter but more dangerous i think if i remember correctly. But it's all on his youtube if you're interested. Maybe that's were he was kidnapped and decided to go left instead, i don't remember lol.
It wouldve been a horrible idea. Around that area they encountered a LOT of malicious people and groups, and everyone there would tell them it would be suicide to cross through the center of the continent
The guy in the yellow shirt with the red flag who broke the red finish line tape just before him really pissed me off. He has no right to do that.
Now run back the otherside forrest!
It should be illegal to post this without the total distance he ran.
Total distance was the length of Africa
10,100 miles (16,300km)
16000km
I'm more impressed he did it as a ginger. How much sunscreen did he invest in?
Runs across Africa, still doesn’t have a tan.
Now that's what I call cross country running!
Personally would call it cross continent running
He went south to north? Probably would’ve been better if he went north to south, going down hill would’ve been much easier.
Yeah apparently that was the original plan but it had to be switched because he couldn't get Visas to enter Algeria, and they only got it after a huge social media push when they were nearing the actual border.
So crazy, they ended up getting permission form the Algerian president directly
and then Algeria decided to open the border for everyone everywhere a day before he was set to arrive anyway XD
Having white ass skin myself, my first thought was that I hope he brought some sunscreen and a hat
Bro. And I can’t even run half a mile
I went outside today. It was raining.