Char’s Footsteps
Hi everyone, Iβm Char! A twenty-something from London looking to document my two biggest passions β running and travelling. I recently took the plunge to quit my job and travel the world on a one-way ticket – with a few big international running races thrown in. I leave in October where I’ll start my trip in Vietnam, before slowly making my way to Australia. This blog will be to share my experiences and hopefully provide some useful tips along the way.
Here’s a small history of my running and travel journey so far π
Running
I decided to sign up to the London Marathon in 2014 to take on a new challenge, have something to fundraise for and to have an outlet from university stress that wasn’t alcohol fuelled. After running the marathon in 2015, I was hooked and have now run 7 marathons around the world. My goals currently are to complete the 6 World Major Marathons (I have completed London, New York, Chicago and Berlin already β just Tokyo and Boston left!), actually qualify for Boston (this will take a lifetime at this rate), to run an ultra-marathon and – my ultimate goal – finish a full Ironman triathlon. My next big race will be the Singapore marathon in November, but I have several summer/autumn half marathons lined up too.
My running instagram is: https://www.instagram.com/runchar2/
Marathons Completed:
- London x 3
- New York
- Paris
- Berlin
- Chicago
Half Marathons β x 11
Travelling
I’ve been really lucky to grow up in a family that has encouraged travelling, so we often went away to explore new countries and learn about different cultures. My first solo backpacking trip was during my summer holidays at university, where I spent 6 weeks in Thailand and Laos! Since then, I’ve travelled all over East/South-East Asia, parts of the USA and Europe on solo backpacking trips – typically by saving up all my annual leave and going on one big trip. This year I decided to quit my job and spend 6-8 months travelling around countries I’ve been dreaming to visit for years. My adventure starts in October!
My travelling instagram is: https://www.instagram.com/char.travels/
Countries visited so far: 32
Afghanistan | Lesotho |
Albania | Liberia |
Algeria | Libya |
Andorra | Liechtenstein |
Angola | Lithuania |
Anguilla | Luxembourg |
Antarctica | Madagascar |
Antigua and Barbuda | Malawi |
Argentina | Malaysia β |
Armenia | Maldives |
Aruba | Mali |
Australiaβ | Malta |
Austria | Marshall Islands |
Azerbaijan | Mauritania |
Bahamas | Mauritius |
Bahrain | Mexicoβ |
Bangladesh | Micronesia |
Barbados β | Moldova |
Belarus | Monaco |
Belgium | Mongolia |
Belizeβ | Montenegro |
Benin | Morocco |
Bermuda β | Mozambique |
Bhutan | Myanmar |
Bolivia | Namibia |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | Nauru |
Botswana | Nepal |
Brazil | Netherlands β |
British Virgin Islands | New Zealandβ |
Brunei | Nicaraguaβ |
Bulgaria β | Niger |
Burkina Faso | Nigeria |
Burundi | North Korea |
Cambodiaβ | North Macedonia |
Cameroon | Norway |
Canada β | Oman |
Cape Verde | Pakistan |
Cayman Islands | Palau |
Central African Republic | Palestine State |
Chad | Panamaβ |
Chile | Papua New Guinea |
China | Paraguay |
Colombiaβ | Peru |
Comoros | Philippinesβ |
Costa Ricaβ | Poland |
CΓ΄te d’Ivoire | Portugal β |
Croatia β | Puerto Rico |
Cuba | Qatar |
Cyprus | Romania |
Czech Republic β | Russia |
Democratic Republic of Congo | Rwanda |
Denmark | Saint Kitts and Nevis |
Djibouti | Saint Lucia β |
Dominica | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines |
Dominican Republic | Samoa |
Ecuador | San Marino |
Egypt β | Sao Tome and Principe |
El Salvadorβ | Saudi Arabia |
Equatorial Guinea | Senegal |
Eritrea | Serbia |
Estonia | Seychelles β |
Ethiopia | Sierra Leone |
Fiji | Singapore β |
Finland | Slovakia |
France β | Slovenia |
Gabon | Solomon Islands |
Gambia | Somalia |
Georgia | South Africa β |
Germany β | South Korea |
Ghana | South Sudan |
Greece β | Spain β |
Greenland | Sri Lanka β |
Grenada | Sudan |
Guadeloupe | Suriname |
Guam | Swaziland |
Guatemalaβ | Sweden |
Guernsey | Switzerland β |
Guinea | Syria |
Guinea-Bissau | Taiwan |
Guyana | Tajikistan |
Haiti | Tanzania |
Holy See β | Thailand β |
Honduras | Timor-Leste |
Hong Kong β | Togo |
Hungary | Tonga |
Iceland | Trinidad and Tobago β |
India | Tunisia |
Indonesia β | Turkey β |
Iran | Turkmenistan |
Iraq | Tuvalu |
Ireland β | Uganda |
Isle of Man | Ukraine |
Israel | United Arab Emirates |
Italy β | United Kingdom β |
Jamaica | United States of America β |
Japan | Uruguay |
Jersey | Uzbekistan |
Jordanβ | Vanuatu |
Kazakhstan | Venezuela |
Kenya β | Vietnamβ |
Kiribati | Virgin Islands |
Kuwait | Western Sahara |
Kyrgyzstan | Yemen |
Laos β | Zambia |
Latvia | Zimbabwe |
Lebanon |