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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Lifestyle
Donna Lu

Cape York to Melbourne: Australian ultrarunner on pace to break daily marathon world record

Australian ultrarunner Erchana Murray-Bartlett runs through the bush wearing a grey hoodie
Australian ultrarunner Erchana Murray-Bartlett has been racing internationally in marathons for the last several years. Photograph: Supplied

Erchana Murray-Bartlett is incredibly chipper for someone who has just completed her 63rd consecutive daily marathon. When we speak over the phone, she is near Rockhampton in central Queensland, not yet halfway through an attempt to run 6,000km from the tip of Cape York to Melbourne.

Murray-Bartlett hopes to complete 155 marathons in as many days, raising money for the Wilderness Society. She aims to break a world record in the process (106 consecutive marathons, set earlier this year by English woman Kate Jayden).

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