“Hardest Geezer” is again on the highway with a brand new ultrarunning problem, this one positive to impress soccer followers together with runners. Russ Prepare dinner of Worthing, U.Okay., aka @HardestGeezer, is thought for finishing a transcontinental run of the size of Africa in April, after spending virtually a 12 months on the highway. Now, he says he’ll run to each soccer sport England performs throughout the UEFA Euro 2024 event, with the primary kicking off in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, 566 km from Wembley Stadium, the place England performed Serbia on Sunday night.
“Sure boys & ladies. Completely buzzing to be again on highway, operating to Germany to assist @england all through the euros,” Prepare dinner posted on Instagram on Tuesday. “Leaving Wembley now, ferocious 1s & 2s to each sport.”
UEFA Euro 2024
This 12 months’s UEFA European Soccer Championship (Euro 2024) is the seventeenth version of the boys’s soccer championship, which takes place each 4 years. Germany is internet hosting the occasion, from June 14 to July 14. Euro 2024 sees 24 groups competing over the month-long interval, with the winner taking up the champion of the 2024 Copa América event.
Prepare dinner’s African journey
Prepare dinner left Cape Agulhas, South Africa, on April 22, 2023, passing by way of 16 nations, masking greater than 15,000 km and elevating greater than £700,000 for charity earlier than ending his run on the northern tip of Tunisia. He not solely needed to preserve exceptional bodily health throughout his trek throughout Africa, but additionally handled a wide selection of challenges. The 26-year-old’s journey was difficult by visa hassles, well being challenges and crime (at one level he and his crew had been robbed at gunpoint, shedding their cameras, telephones, money and passports, inflicting a delay of greater than a month). The most important problem was acquiring journey visas for Algeria, his second-last nation; his unique objective was to have been completed by Christmas 2023.
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Supporting England will likely be “considerably simpler”
Prepare dinner filmed himself operating on Tuesday, the primary day of his new problem, sharing a map that estimates the journey to Gelsenkirchen will take him three days and 14 hours, together with a ferry throughout the English channel from the Essex coast, the place he’ll then run by way of the Netherlands. “First sport on Sunday, in Germany, so we’ve received plenty of floor to cowl,” Prepare dinner mentioned. “What a time to be alive.”
Euro 2024 kicks off in a bunch stage, which sees England enjoying subsequent in Frankfurt (just below 300 km for Prepare dinner to run from Gelsenkirchen) subsequent Thursday, and in Cologne (roughly 200 km) on June 25. “Gotta be mentioned, as nicely, considerably simpler than operating throughout the Sahara desert, this,” Prepare dinner mentioned. “So I’m having fun with myself. Tesco on each nook, what a doddle.” Prepare dinner is fuelling up at comfort shops and spent his first evening in an Essex pub.
