Winchester runner eyes world record (From Hampshire Chronicle)

Winchester runner eyes world record

12:27pm Tuesday 30th June 2009

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A RUNNER from Winchester is part of a team hoping to break an endurance world record this weekend.

Matt King will be one of 12 athletes taking part in a challenge at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in West Sussex.

The team will take it in turns to keep a treadmill going for 48 hours, starting at noon on Friday, July 3.

Each athlete is due to run six stints of 45 minutes, covering a total of nearly 50 miles.

They are aiming to break the world record, set last year, where another team ran 495.76 miles in two days.

To become world-beaters, the squad will have to average more than 10mph and run the equivalent of going from Winchester to Aberdeen.

Carmaker, Porsche, has assembled the team, and they will be running in the firm’s marquee at Goodwood.

The athletes come from across the south, and Mr King applied to join the squad after a friend told him about the event.

The 30-year-old, who lives in Harestock, works as an Army physical training instructor at the Worthy Down base near Winchester.

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