The electrician turned celebrated long-distance runner who was the speech of the federation aft moving crossed Australia has announced a caller satellite record-breaking challenge.
Nedd Brockmann took to Instagram connected Thursday nighttime to archer followers helium volition effort to interruption the grounds clip for covering 1,000 miles - conscionable implicit 1,600km - connected foot.
The existent grounds of 10 days, 10 hours, 30 minutes and 36 seconds was acceptable by Yiannis Kouros, a Greek runner with Australian citizenship, successful New York successful 1988.
Brockmann volition beryllium attempting to interruption the grounds by running 403 laps a time astatine Sydney Olympic Park's 400m way for 10 days from October 3.
He isn't caller to smashing records, aft becoming the fastest Australian to tally crossed the country, from Cottesloe Beach successful Perth to Bondi Beach successful Sydney, successful 47 days successful 2022.
Electrician turned long-distance runner Nedd Brockmann (pictured) has announced he's shooting to interruption the satellite grounds time for covering 1,000 miles - 1,600km - connected foot
His monolithic tally crossed the state captured the attraction of the nation, arsenic thousands gathered astatine North Bondi to cheer 1 the exhausted then-24-year-old.
Brockman's tally wasn't conscionable for idiosyncratic glory, arsenic helium helped rise implicit $2.2million for Australian homelessness foundation We Are Mobilise.
That aforesaid foundation volition besides beryllium astatine the centre of his newest grounds effort with an adjacent much audacious extremity acceptable by Brockmann to rise $10million.
He captioned his station by paying homage to Kouros' record, saying it has stood for implicit 3 decades 'for bully reason'.
'To interruption it down, that’s astir 160 kilometres a time for 10 days successful bid to interruption the record,' Brockmann wrote.
'(The grounds is) held by 1 of - if not the - top ultra runner of each time, (Kouros') feat of endurance is simply caput blowing.
'However, if you’re going to bash something, don’t spell successful fractional assed, propulsion everything astatine it. Everything.'
Brockmann changeable to national-fame aft becoming the fastest Aussie to tally crossed the federation from Cottesloe Beach (pictured), Perth, to Bondi Beach, Sydney, successful conscionable 47 days
He added however 'excited and grateful' helium is to person been fixed the accidental to interruption the grounds 'in bid to marque a alteration successful the world'.
'(This is) each successful the anticipation to permission a lasting interaction good aft I’m gone,' Brockmann wrote.
'We lone get 1 accidental astatine this beingness and I’d hatred to dice wondering. There’s nary turning backmost now, the amusive is conscionable astir to start, clip to get to work.'
The station has already been liked implicit 40,000 times successful little than a time and drawn comments from immoderate of Brockmann's astir celebrated followers.
'It has been said. It volition beryllium done. Got a feeling the stadium won’t beryllium that bare connected time 10,' Australian comedian Hamish Blake wrote.
Other Aussie sporting icons specified arsenic Test cricket skipper Pat Cummins and plumber turned Olympic bronze medal boxer Harry Garside besides offered their support.
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