Over the weekend of 12-13 March 2022, Mark Avery will attempt to break the world record for 24 hours running on a treadmill!
The current record is 264.52 km running at a pace of approximately 5:26 min/km for 24h straight! It is a superhuman effort, and Mark will have to draw every bit of mental and physical strength to succeed.
And this is where you come in!
This challenge will be the lead up to Mark’s attempt, to show some support, get him pumped and help his fundraising effort to #outruncancer a
You have a week (not 24h) to run 265km as solo or as a team of up to 15 runners. That equates to 37km/day if you are by yourself, 7.5km a day per person for a team of 5, or 2.5km a day per person for a team of 15.
Can you and your team reach 265 km in one week? How far can you go? There is only one way to find out!
Cover at least 265km in one week! On a treadmill, on road, on trail, anywhere you’d like, every km counts!
The challenge will take place between Saturday 05/03/2022 and Friday 11/03/2022, times and distances will be tracked through your strava data feed.
The Rules in brief:
Ahead of the race:
Race day:
The official leaderboards will be made available soon after the race concludes
IMPORTANT:
While the entry fee is A$10 per person, all donations will go towards the funding of Cancer Council Healthy lunch box project.
We use strava to track your activities. Strava is the world biggest social community for athletes, where you can upload all your activities directly from your sports’ watch or using their app. Sign-up is totally free.
After you have registered for the challenge on the outruncancer.grassrootz.com platform, simply login and click the “Strava connect” button to link your profile
For this challenge, we will be retrieving all activities with the title “#OUTRUNCANCERDAY Miles for Mark” completed between 00:01 on March 5th 2022 and 23:59 on March 11th 2022.
Unfortunately not.
To keep things fair and eliminate manual work, we ask you to create a free account on strava and connect your OUTRUN CANCER profile.
While ideally, you can title it right away, you have until 5 PM on 14/03/2021 before we start processing the data.
We will only add to the leaderboard your activity titled “#OUTRUNCANCERDAY Miles for Mark”
The teams are between 1 and 50 runners.
The first person to register a new team becomes the de-facto Team Captain.
You run wherever you want, for as long as you want and how far you want!
The sky is the limit!
Absolutely!
We will sum up all the activities (walks and runs) during the 7 days of the challenge.
In short, ideally not. If you can’t participate anymore, we encourage you to get a friend or colleague to take your place and sort out the registration costs directly with them. If you can’t find anyone to take your place, maybe think of it as small donation for all the great work we are doing!
But if you feel so strongly you’d like a refund, drop us a line and we will surely sort you out!
All donations for this campaign go towards the funding of the Healthy Lunchbox website.
Every donation will receive a tax-deductible receipt via email within 24 hours.
Sorry about that.
If after checking your spam folder (sender is notifications@grassrootz.com ) you still can’t find your receipt, please email us with the details of your donation and we will get back to you at light speed!
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