We are so very happy to be in our final country, Venezuela. We have been running from Santa Elena, the border with Brazil, for four days now and are running through the National Park of Canaima which is full of tepuis, incredible natural formations with unique flora...
South America Barefoot Shoes shoes shoes…..Thoughts of shoes have been filling our heads over the past few months. This is perhaps an odd thing for two people running the length of South America barefoot?! To explain, we take it in turns pulling our trailer and use a...
We're in Manaus!! The city in the middle of the Amazon rainforest. After running over 670 km from Humaita in 22 days, crossing 260 bridges and eating our way through two trailers worth of food; we arrived filthy but elated and finally limped into bed after consuming a...
The clock is ticking. 48 hours to prepare for the toughest test yet of our South America running expedition; the BR 319. This infamous road, that is no longer a road, as it is being rapidly reclaimed by the forest, will carry us deep into the Amazon rainforest. This...
British adventure-running couple, Katharine and David Lowrie, are hoping to run into the record books after completing an unsupported and gruelling 1,187 mile run across Bolivia, a country four times the size of Great Britain. This is the first time this feat has ever...
As I write the rain is pummeling down on the thatched roof of the Hostel– a sage reminder that the “dry” season is not entirely sure it has arrived. And a reminder too that the decision we took to run 150 miles west to avoid the inundated wetlands in the middle of...
Seems hard to believe we have been running for 9 months. Three-quarters of a year! While progress has felt painfully slow at times, and sometimes just plain hard, now when we look around we see palms and parrots, chaotic Latino markets and lorries plying along dusty...
Total Days Run: 263. Total Miles Run 3,626 miles. The rains have come. This is something we have been worrying about since we started planning the expedition nearly two years ago! Weather has never stopped us running before: we’ve run through howling wind, snow,...
We have now run over 3,000 miles through Chile and Argentina. We have reached Tartagal, Salta province, signaling nearly the end of over four months of running through Argentina and the start of the Bolivian section. We have run through the freezer of a Patagonian...
November 2012. Are we the first in the World to have run Chile´s southern highway, the Carretera Austral? We believe that we are the first in the World to have run the length of the indomitable and mountainous Carretera Austral, Chile´s southern highway, from Villa...
27 July 2012: the same day that the Olympics started in London, my husband and I launched our own Olympic bid at the southern most point of continental South America, gazing out to the fabled Southern Ocean. An expedition, to run the length of South America, more than...
