By Matt Murphy BBC News Image source, Rob Pope A British marathon champ has run the width of the island of Ireland in less than 24 hours, relatively endingupbeing the veryfirst individual to achieve the accomplishment. Robert Pope ran from Galway City on Ireland’s west coast to the capital Dublin in simply 23 hours and 39 minutes. The 44-year-old took on the 134-mile (215 km) after a pint of Guinness in Galway, priorto endingup with another at the end of the path on Sunday. Speaking lateron, he was in high spirits – if alittle evenworse for wear. He jokily boasted to the BBC that inspiteof the gruelling accomplishment, he might still battle up the stairs of his lodging. Pope, from Liverpool, chose to takeon massive path on something of a impulse a little over 2 months ago, priorto choosing to usage the chance to raise funds for the World Wildlife Foundation (WWF). It didn’t leave long to prepare. And then more pushing factorstoconsider – in the type of a music celebration – rapidly took precedence. “I was implied to do an eight-week training program, however undoubtedly Glastonbury got in the method of that,” he chuckled. “I was likewise working, so it was mostlikely simply 5 weeks of ‘Yeah, I’m delighted with that’ training.” Image source, Rob Pope Image caption, Supporters welcomed Pope along the path But the range runner was figuredout not to enable the worry of failure to act as a check on his aspiration. In truth, in some methods it was the point of it. “Ultrarunning has blewup in the last coupleof years, and a lot of that is duetothefactthat on social you’ll frequently see individuals doing these insane bonkers runs,” he stated. “But noone ever posts anything about failure anywhere. You see a lot of individuals publishing and if they have stoppedworking at something they’re like ‘I’m definitely gutted duetothefactthat I didn’t prosper’, however they did prosper duetothefactthat they offered whatever they had to get there.” Pope is an elite ultramarathon runner,
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