Australian park run regular Tim Franklin laced up his shoes in South Bank, Brisbane on Saturday to head out to the airport, but he ran all the way.
With a small support crew in tow, he then flew to Queenstown, where he hit the road again on Monday, starting his run near the Kawarau Bridge bungy to pound the highway through the Kawarau and Cromwell Gorges to Clyde.
Those two days of hard running were the start of his goal to run around the world, travelling most of the spine of New Zealand to Auckland, then through the United States of America, South America, Europe and Asia, before a return to Australia scheduled for October next year.
