Running round the world Clive Baker will shortly be setting off on a 50,000 km run, hoping to add his name to the very small and select list of people who have performed the extraordinary act of running all the way round the world. On the run he will experience extremes of temperature, from the frozenRussian winter to the burning African summer. As if that is not bad enough, he has no back-up team for assistance and will be running alone, carrying all his equipment on his back. When interviewed, however, Mr Baker suggested the real problem would lie elsewhere. My biggest fear is not the physical challenge, but loneliness. Mr Baker said. `I'm as sociable as anyone and I'm very hopeful that, despite the difficulties that lie ahead, I will still be able to form many friendship on the way. On a trial of 2,000 km, run under the blazing heat of Africa sun, he came across wild baboons and poisonous snakes, but such dangers have not put him off. His trial run proved that a target of 60 kilometres a day was reasonable. "I have made my mind to do it and I will. Running is my life," he said.
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