Han er den første i verden som har løpt fra Nordkapp til sørspissen av Afrika. I tillegg er han den første som har løpt gjennom hele Afrika.
Dette skriver han på hjemmesiden sin:
North to South run completed In the late afternoon during a terrific blowing wind under clear blue skies I reached the South-Western point of the African continent and added a small chapter to endurance running: the first person to run from the tip of Europe (Nordkapp, North of the Arctic Circle) to the tip of Africa, as well as the first runner to run straight across Africa.
As always here in South Africa I had fantastic support & good company from the extremerunners of S. Africa who made it a memorable day for sure !
With me - on sms via the pgs-phone - was Sarah from Australia who ran the first 7000km w. me and without whom I would never have started the run :-)
And behind the scenes sat Phil Essam, Darrel Raubenhaimer and my main sponsor Ecco who together w. Heimo Meriö helped with the vast amount of logistics of 21 400km of running !
Both as a runner and as a political scientist it is always interesting to make these record-journeys across the continents. As a political scientist you have a 'top-down' or theoretical approach - as a worldrunner you see the world from 'bottom up': the perspective of everyday life. The high-politics world is most of the time a world of conflict; on resources, economy, security, culture, religion.
The everyday life as I see it each step straight across the continents (Europe, Russia/Asia, Australia & North America in world run 1 and Middle-East and Africa in world run 2) is a world of helpfulness no matter wich culture and religion.. Else I would not be able to do these runs !
My "heroes" are not the politicians or media stars, but the "everyday people" across the world. They see each other as much less of a danger and w. much more friendship and are in my oppinion, both as a political scientist and as a runner across our world, a far better source of solution of the severe problems we all face. I dedicate this run and its records to those "everyday" people across the world!! They may never become famous or powerful but in them I always see a far stronger will to change and to meet with peacefullness regardless which culture or religion they have - they are my heroes and makes things possible :-)
Fra reisens start på Nordkapp. Foto: Erik Nossum
