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Rest day on Saturday – New Zealand will be run on Sunday

26,903km in 636 road days.

Hi All I finished in Dacre today with a 52km day, Thurs 54km and a couple of lazy 42 and 43km days before that! It was starting to look like 4 days to finish NZ on Wednesday night complexed by my Saturday night Invercargill hosts Paul and Grace going away for the weekend. So I decided to run three big days that is two down and a 52km last day still to come. That is running the four days in three days instead. Because of this I wont be at a loose end on Saturday night, so I decided to avail of an offer from my kind hosts Brian and Rose Railton of a rest/office day on Saturday (first in 36 days!) Brian is Alan Knox’s cousin. I stayed with Alan in Auckland at the start of my run down the country. They live in Wyndham and picked me up at the end of today’s run where I will return to as early as possible on Sunday morning. A television crew will be coming out to film and interview my last – and am sure – tired steps in Kiwi land on Sunday! Sunday night I will stay with Paul and Grace in Invercargill before returning to Christchurch for my Wednesday evening flight to Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. I am thinking of running straight out of the airport when I arrive around 9am Thursday! My flight has a layover in Melbourne for a few hours so my Michael Gillan my Australian mainland support driver will be coming out to meet me in the airport during this lay over for a chat. We take on the great wide open, right through the middle of Australia around 11/12 March. I can hardly wait for this segment!

Any area runners that want to run with me on Sunday you are more than welcome. It is best to check my location on this blog - you will see my location once I start running – join in where convenient for you.

Sundays route HERE

G’day mateys

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5 Responses to “Rest day on Saturday – New Zealand will be run on Sunday”

Fergus Says:
February 22nd, 2013 at 2:13 pm
Good Man Tony, All this is great news. You have certainly traversed New Zealand without a hitch and we look forward to the continuing story of the most daring expedition of the millennium.
Greg Havely Says:
February 23rd, 2013 at 1:16 am
Hey Tony—great job—-NZ has been good to you—hope this continues on through Aussie!!!—-Looking forward to your blog from the Outback woohoo—Good running–Greg
kevin scanlon Says:
February 23rd, 2013 at 7:37 pm
tony, those are some great running days. I see you are on the road already today. well done. looking forward to australia. kevin
Ann Says:
February 23rd, 2013 at 10:05 pm
Text from Tony to say: Pls post ” I will finish running NZ at 5pm here as I committed that time to tv and media people. Need to slow down a bit as I am 2 hrs ahead of schedule. It’s A Beautiful Day “
Tony Says:
February 24th, 2013 at 9:36 am
New Zealand has been run
52km today. Unofficial total 26,955km in 637 road days. NZ circa 1,600km in 37 road days.
Many thanks to my hosts Brian and Rose for last couple of days of fun and tonight to Paul and Grace. At the South Islands and New Zealands so called ‘ Lands End ‘ in Stirling Point just beyond Bluff I touched the ocean by falling on my backside on the slippery rocks.
There at the bottom of the country I did an interview for the Southland Times and another for the local CUE television station a subsidiary of SKY 110 tv which can also be seen on Freeview ch 23 Monday 5.30 and repeated at 9.pm
Paul is working as an engineer on some of the Christchurch rebuild projects and regularly flies from Invercargill on standby flights that cost less than the bus fare. So as I fly from there to Tasmania I have decided to take a standby flight which he says are so frequent they are almost guaranteed to get away on Monday morning. Thanks again to all the wonderful people on both island for making New Zealand so successful and enjoyable

since Tony began his World Run on 25th October 2010

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About Tony

I have always considered myself to be an average runner. In school, I was even bullied for I was a sports wimp. Through hard work, dedication, perseverance, self-belief and a strong mind I succeeded in not only running around the world but breaking four ultra running world records during my competitive career. Having previously cycled around the world I didn't start running until I was almost 30. Then I had a dream of running around the world. For many reasons, I waited for over 20 years. One reason was to establish my pedigree as an endurance athlete. I started and finished my world run as the current World Record-Holder for 48 Hours Indoor Track 426 kilometres (265 miles), a record I have held since 2007. I also broke and still hold the World Record for 48 hours on a Treadmill 405 kilometres (251 miles) in 2008. When I retired from competition, more pleasing than any of my world, European or Irish records I had the respect of my fellow athletes from all over the world - in my opinion, sports greatest reward - an achievement I am most proud of. Then I finally put myself out to pasture, to live my ultimate dream to run around the world! This blog was written on the road while I struggled to find places to sleep and to recover from running an average of 43.3 kilometres or 27 miles per day for 1,165 road days. There were many nights I typed this blog on a smart phone, so fatigued my eyes closed. Many journalists and endurance athletes have referred to my world run as the most difficult endurance challenge ever attempted. During my expedition I rarely had any support vehicles, running mostly with a backpack. In the more desolate areas I pushed my gear, food and water in a cart which I called Nirvana, then I sent her on ahead to run with my backpack once again over altitudes of almost 5,000 metres in the Andes. I stayed in remote villages where many people had never seen a white person before. I literally met the most wonderful people of this world in their own backyard and share many of those amazing experiences in this blog. My run around the world took 4 years. There were no short cuts, I ran every single metre on the road while seeking out the most comprehensive route across 41 countries, 5 continents, I used 50 pair of running shoes and my final footstep of the run was exactly 50,000 kilometres, (almost 31,000 miles) I eventually finished this tongue in cheek named world jog where I started, at the finish line of my city marathon. I started my global run with the Dublin Marathon on October 25th 2010 and finished with the Dublin Marathon on October 27th 2014 at 3 05pm! Thank you for your support, I hope you can share my unique way of seeing the world, the ultimate endurance challenge! Read more...