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[Roshan Joshi]

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• Lizzy Hawker running 319km from basecamp to Kathmandu, none stop. Arriving late Saturday night [1 Update]

 Lizzy Hawker running 319km from basecamp to Kathmandu, none stop. Arriving late Saturday night

Richard Bull <richar...@gmail.com> Apr 18 06:53AM -0700  

Hello Kathmandu Runners.
 
Just in case you are interested in this incredible effort.....
 
 
Kathmandu
 
Runner to break own 3-day record for 319km Everest Basecamp to Kathmandu
run.
 
*British endurance athlete Lizzy Hawker to arrive in Kathmandu on Saturday
evening. *
 
At 7am on Thursday 18th April internationally renowned endurance athlete
Lizzy Hawker began a solo run in the direction of Kathmandu some 319km (198
miles) away.
 
She is the world record holder for the 'Everest Mailrun' the route taken by
those carrying letters to and from expeditions at Everest Base Camp before
the opening of Lukla airstrip in 1964.
 
He record stands at 71 hours 25 minutes completed in November 2011. She
made her first attempt of the run in 2007 with two friends which took 74
hours 36 minutes with just 4 hours sleep in Jiri.
 
The last Nepali runner to hold the record was Kumar Limbu in 3 days 7hrs
and 10mins set in May 2000.
 
The route is brutally hilly with more than 10,000m ascent and nearly
15,000m descent.
Hawker, who was named a National Geographic Adventurer of the Year 2013,
won the 100K world championship in 2006 and set a 24-hour world record by
running 247km at the Commonwealth Championships in September 2011, and set
a course record for women in the 250km Spartathlon Ultra Race<http://www.spartathlon.gr/en.html> in
Greece.
 
“I try to focus on running the very best that I can, literally moment by
moment,” Hawker recently told the New York Times, “If I’m in pain or
tired, I don’t have to fight it. I can be in myself, in the environment.
It’s amazing what you can do running moment to moment.”
 
Hawker fuels herself on simply banana cake and cheese sandwiches and likes
dal but prefers roti to rice.
 
She is expected to reach the Rangashalla stadium late Saturday night 65
hours after starting at Base Camp.
 
More information:
 
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/16/sports/ultrarunner-competes-on-far-side-of-extreme.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
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http://adventure.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/adventurers-of-the-year/2013/lizzy-hawker/
- http://uk.thenorthface.com/blog/eu/en/elizabeth-hawker
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