The Running Voyager Linda Kapembeza

Naoki Shimizu is a GPS artist runner. One of Naoki's principles in his running endeavours is to make running an accessible sport to everyone. His GPS journey began when he wanted to create a sport that his students in wheelchairs could also enjoy. Naoki has run over 12,500km in countries all over the world with over 1350 pieces of art under his belt.
In 2023 Naoki and bicycle follow-up record photographer Masuo Keiryou, ran the whole island of Taiwan in a project titled "2023 GPS Run for LOVE" where he spelt out the word love with Taiwan representing the letter O.
This month he is starting project Peru, Naoki will be running 3,000km through Peru also celebrating the 150th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Japan and Peru, his art this time will be a giant alpaca.
Project Peru
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Naoki's Instagram
Naoki's Facebook
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Sheena and Shaun, are the founders of Live Adventure which has been running for over a decade, and they are the race organizers and race directors of the Addo Elephant Trail Run.

Addo Elephant Trail Run
Live Adventure
Washie 100 Miler


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Bruce Noel Stevenson Fordyce (born 3 December 1955 in Hong Kong) is a South African marathon and ultramarathon athlete. He is best known for having won the South African Comrades Marathon a record nine times, of which eight wins were consecutive. He also won the London to Brighton Ultra Marathon three years in a row. He is the former world record holder over 50 miles and the former world record holder over 100 km, the 100km record was broken by Jim Walmsley in 2019.
Fordyce also introduced the Parkrun running events to South Africa in November 2011.This is a collection of free-entry weekly 5k run events. There are now 210 parkrun events in South Africa as of 16 October 2023.Bruce Fordyce ran his 500th parkrun at Delta Park, Johannesburg, the first South African parkrun venue, on 14 October 2023. Parkrun south africa had 26 runners at the innuagural race in 2011, and now has a membership of over 1.4million members.
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Quinlan Faris is an avid hiker, coffee enthusiast who hails from Madison, Wisconsin. His journey took him to Japan 20 years ago after a ten-month spell in China where he was a student of Tibetan Buddhism and Classical Tibetan Language. After a decade in Tokyo, during which time he took multiple back-packing trips to India and Nepal, he moved north to Iwate in 2010. You’ll most likely find him up a local volcano, hiking through a storm, fighting a bear (probably happened) or foraging for wild vegetables to feed his Airbnb guests and entertain his YouTube subscribers.

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Quinlan's YouTube Channel
Quinlan's Website
Mount Iwate



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Mrs Preeti Dattatraya Maske, from Pune India is a 46 year old mother, wife, ultracyclist, ultrarunner, entreprenuer, motivational speaker and social worker.
In addition to all this Preeti is an Ironman and has 5 Guinness World Record Awards under her belt! 
Preeti started her fitness journey after running a 5k at her child's school and clocking a time of 25 minutes, in her forties.
Golden Quadrilateral 6000 km cycling in 24 days Mar 2021 Completed Pune to Kolhapur 220 km running in 46 hrsManali to Leh cycling in 55 hours Jun 2022 as GWRManali to Leh running 4 days 22 hrs Aug 2022 GWR   West to East 4000 km cycling in 13 days 18 hrs as GWRKashmir to Kanyakumari cycling in 11 days 22 hrs as a GWR in Feb 2023⁠Bhutan Nepal India cycling in 10 days 18 hrs as a GWR in May 2023Ironman Barcelona Spain in 15 hrs 07 min in Oct 2023Completed 338 km running @ vineyard ultra in 73 hrs 45 min in Feb 2024Ambassador of Border Road organisation & Organ donation awareness,Founder of Topspeed Bicycles pvt ltd, Co-Founder of Bamboosh Bicycles Pvt Ltd, Founder of NGO World on Wheels Foundation
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Day 21!

Today's gem is from Liesl Koch.

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