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A Dubai Man Is Trying To Run 40 Marathons In 40 Days
Lee Ryan is paving the streets of Dubai with a big mission, he’s aiming to run 40 marathons in 40 days and he’s over halfway through!
Lee is an endurance athlete and coach, and he’s well-known in the community for championing fitness, he holds 5 Guinness World Records, he’s the local and MENA adidas runners Captain and he once completed a marathon… in his backyard!
This month, he quietly set himself a personal challenge. We’re now 23 days in and support is growing, Lee now aims to run 40 marathons in 40 days and is raising money for an important social foundation in Malawi.
Right now, Lee is 23 days in and he’s in great spirits: “Win the mind, win the day’
Day 23 / Marathon 23 ✅
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It was a good day. Body is still moving. Each step at a time takes me closer to the finish line. 40 marathons in 40 days in the target. 17 marathons to go. LET’S GO!!
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Lee is taking on the endurance challenge to raise funds for @the.sparkle.foundation
So far, he’s 11% of the way toward his fundraising goal and he hopes to achieve 100% by day 40.
The Sparkle Foundation is a non-profit and it’s a registered charity here in the UAE. Their aim is to ‘deliver a future in which every community has an equal opportunity to live a life of health and self-sufficiency in Malawi’.
It began as a personal challenge, which he says has been ‘humbling and scary’. Each day starts with an alarm bell at 3am
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With 10 marathons in 10 days in my legs, it’s been fun, I have loved it, it has been humbling, scary, challenging, the discipline of the prep, recovery, fueling, pacing, same routes, setting the 3am alarm, taking each day/run as it comes and also fitting it around my everyday work/family life. It has been so refreshing, I feel I have grown so much already. But let’s see where this can go 👀 👀 it could be 5 more, 10 more and beyond. Who knows.
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