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D. Thompson's Run the World Challenge - 6. Ireland

 Here’s the blog entry for GSN founding partner Dan Thompson’s sixth Run The World Challenge 10 km run, in Ireland.

D. Thompson's Run the World Challenge - 5. Slovakia

I think it’s fair to say that not everyone in the UK can place Slovakia on the map. There may even be some who occasionally confuse it with Slovenia.

D. Thompson's Run the World Challenge - 4. Poland

 I’ve got a lot of guilt about the cost involved in doing Run the World so, when the chance came to book flights and two nights in Krakow for £100, I felt duty bound to grab it.

D. Thompson's Run the World Challenge - 3. Germany

Phil and Dee moved to Berlin a few years ago, fell in love with the place and we’re now heading out there to celebrate Dee’s birthday. What better place for my third and final trial run?

D. Thompson's Run the World Challenge - 2. Greece

I’d been planning this – my second trial run – for 12 months. The previous year we’d holidayed in Greece and I’d discovered this lovely cliff top walk through a pine forest and with a view over the sea to Mount Olympus.

D. Thompson's Run the World Challenge - 1. Norway

If I'm really going to do this, then I guess it’s not a bad place to start.
Kollentrollet - a 6.7m statue of a troll – is behind me and the magnificent Holmenkollen ski jump in front of me.
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