I know a lad who has met Russ a few times in Worthing on nights out etc and doesn’t get on with him. At one point when I was singing his praises on Twitter he messaged me to claim he wasn’t even really in Africa.
Safe to say his Strava paints a slightly different picture and that theory was put...
Little update and a bounce.
Russ has reached the South Africa/Namibia border. Unfortunately his teams van has a smashed windscreen which meant they couldn’t cross until it’s fixed. So as it’s just a barren desert with no phone signal he’s waiting to nightfall to walk as far as possible...
There isn’t a thread for this chap but f*ck me he deserves one. Russ is an endurance athlete from Worthing. Some of his achievements including being the first person to run from Asia to London and the record for the fastest marathon whilst pulling a car.
A few months ago he went to start his...