Intriguing running challenges

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Aug 2022
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Girlie
I did the Vertical Rush one, I believe its still going.

The London Runderground, wax a set of maps you bought from Rory Coleman. A group of us from here did it, 42 stations, 42 km was hard going ad you had to take stairs not lifts. But wad an Interesting challenge.
Aug 2022
6:42pm, 30 Aug 2022
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K5 Gus
If you want an "actual" underground challenge, then there's always the Tunnel Ultra - 200 miles, involving back and forward 100 times along the UKs longest tunnel
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Sep 2022
12:50am, 1 Sep 2022
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paulcook
How about kicking a football the breadth of the country?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjzy9BKkWno
Sep 2022
2:04pm, 1 Sep 2022
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Mushroom
You've just missed 'Hell on the Humber' - it's a night run across the Humber Bridge - completing as many laps as possible.

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Sep 2022
2:05pm, 1 Sep 2022
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Mushroom
It seems they are doing another one for Halloween: eventbrite.co.uk
Sep 2022
11:08pm, 1 Sep 2022
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craig6p
I did Hell on the Humber (24 hours) in 2018. Simple and low fuss, so it was good for stepping up to 100 miles for the first time. It's a reasonable lap distance for leaving your food etc. so you can avoid having to carry things.

Traffic noise was loud for me at times during the day. Official lap counting was a bit wrong for some people. I don't regret doing it though.

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Maintained by larkim
Spotted this on reddit today - reddit.com - which looked fun and thought maybe a thread for gathering together some bizarre / intriguing / interesting running challenges might be a Fetch sort of thing.

I've not looked into it in any more detail but as the post says, it's a bet that a friend couldn't run 7 miles whilst the other runner picked up 100 eggs placed 1 yd apart (one by o...

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