Tony Mangan started the Dublin Marathon on October 25, 2010, kept running, and began a journey that would take him across five continents, six deserts and 41 countries before he returned to Dublin four years later. The World Runners Association records his completed route at 50,000 km over 1,461 days, and lists it as the longest circumnavigation of the Earth on foot under its records.
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