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“Born to Run” is a book of a hidden tribe, super athletes, and the greatest race the world has never seen. The author, Christopher McDougall, gave an incredible detail basis on science to show us that everything we thought we knew about running is wrong. However, a book about the greatest race the world has never seen without a map to provide a clue is pity. After I read few chapters, it’s hard for me to picture the route by words. Therefore, I decide to create a map based on the story and link it with Google Earth. From this virtual Earth to simulate the route and follow the story, I can finally relate to the story as if I’m watching the race; a live event right in front of me. It has become such a joy to follow the story.

Since the book did not provide any kind of map. I would like to share this Marathon route simulation with all of you. So, please take my virtual earth to lead you to the plot.

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There is an ultrl_marathon — „TransEurope-FootRace“ . The race is run from Bari, Italy to Nordkapp, Norway. It’s held from April 19th to June 21st 2009 about 4.700 km in 64 Stages.

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[Google Earth Tour]

Early 21^st of Feburary morning,

There are 240 elite runners standing in front of starting-line of 100 kilometers ultra-marathon challenge race at city Kaohsiung Taiwan .

The race start at five o’clock in the morning, It’s still dark and cold, all the runners has to run from Kaohsiung city cultural center to Shi-Chung-Hsi hot spring resort hotel in Pintung, Within 14 hours is the qualify time for each runner,

The race close at 19:00 sharp.

Mr. Hsueh Ching-Kuang（Backmantony） is the only retro-runner in this race, He spend 13 hours, 20 mimutes, and 43 seconds to run 100 kilometers during the race.

Finnally, There are 200 runner finished the race, and Tony was place at No.145.

Actually, He is the only person to challenge the 100 kilometers in this world！

And He is training for his next 1000 kilometers RETRO RUN challenge around the

Formorsa Island already,

Soon we will look and see what happen in Taiwan ,

What happen retro-running challenge field about Backmantony！

Let us just wait and see what happen in Taiwan！

BackmanTony writes the history with retro-running. For expressing to his esteem, I used my most familiar Google Earth to record this courses, if the above video can not meet your need, I prepare another video(800 x 640) from my webserver. Or you can download this KMZ Collection , enter the Google Earth 5.0 to watch voluntarily.

ATHENS
INTERNATIONAL ULTRAMARATHON FESTIVAL 2008
3rd International Ultramarathon Festival (IUF)
MARCH 21 - 28
(7-day race: March 21-28; 24hr race:March 27-28)
ATHENS HELLENIC OLYMPIC PROPERTIES

Website: http://users.forthnet.gr/ath/baxevani/

 

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website: http://www.maratonadiroma.it/
held: 2008/3/16 am 9:00
start:1995
participants:14563
type:cycle(start = finish)
records:
men Di Cecco Alberico 2:08:02 Italy 2005
women AIT SALEM SOUAD 2:25:07 ALG 2007

note:
the 1st time netro-marathon in the world

Kml Collection

I like running marathons. My first experience was the NY marathon on Google Earth 2 years ago. Since then, I have tried to combine a series of marathons worldwide with Google Earth: including those held in Taiwan, Berlin, the Spartathlon, La Transe Gaule(18 days), Deutschlandlauf (17 days), etc.

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