About Me
Char’s Footsteps
Hi everyone, I’m Char! A twenty-something from London looking to document my two biggest passions – 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 🙂
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 – 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.
- runchar2
Never Ending Footsteps
Half Marathons – x 11
Travelling
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 – 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.
Countries visited so far
- Bulgaria
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Canada
- Cape Verde
- Cayman Islands
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Chile
- China
- Colombia
- Comoros
- Costa Rica
- Côte d’Ivoire
- Croatia
- Cuba
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Democratic Republic of Congo
- Denmark
- Djibouti
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- El Salvador
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Mexico
- Micronesia
- Moldova
- Monaco
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Namibia
- Nauru
- Nepal
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Nicaragua
- Nicaragua
- Nigeria
- North Korea
- North Macedonia
- Norway
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Palau
- Palestine State
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Philippines
- Portugal
- Puerto Rico
- Qatar
- Romania
- Russia
- Rwanda
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Samoa
- San Marino
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Singapore
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Korea
- South Sudan
- Spain
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan
- Suriname
- Swaziland
- Switzerland
- Sweden
- Syria
- Taiwan
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Timor-Leste
- Togo
- Tonga
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Turkmenistan
- Tuvalu
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- United States of America
- Uruguay
- Uzbekistan
- Vanuatu
- Venezuela
- Vietnam
- Virgin Islands
- Western Sahara
- Yemen
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe