Claims to be running 100 marathons in 100 days but apart from NYC these aren't organised races.
Can't find any evidence that she's actually covering the distance.
She claims to have done stuff like this before but, again, there doesn't appear to be any actual evidence.
It's all for charidy, of course.
Oh, this should be fun.
She ran sub 6 at nyc. Seems legit.
19,706 likes on her page, but very few likes for her posts.
https://m.facebook.com/MinaGuliWater/
Fake news.
She's also got her own self promoting website
So....she's running 100 marathons in 100 days for charity, has got a load of bought Facebook likes, a self promoting website and previous stunt runs to her name with no evidence. Oh, and it's her charity that she's doing it for.
Pass the popcorn.
Stunt runners gonna stunt.
Middle aged, middle class housewives will find it "inspiring". Anyone even remotely involved in running will see it for the stunt it is and take no further notice.
I just wish these charity attention seekers would stop bastardizing our sport for their own benefit.
A 6 hour marathon is more of a brisk walk rather than a run and only one these is an actual marathon anyway.
And once again this looks like one of those things where the expenses will outweigh any donations/awareness raised...or at least greatly negate it.
Anyway, I'm officially inspired and aware. Good luck to her.
Clocking up thousands of air miles and pretending to run 26 miles every day is a really good way of raising awareness of the scarce resources of the planet. Getting other people to pay money into your own charity while doing it is nothing short of genius.
Go Mina!
Is she coached by Ragen Chastain?
"THE ROUTE
Mina’s challenge starts at the New York City Marathon on the 4th of November, before heading off to run across Europe (UK, France, Italy), Uzbekistan, India, China, Hong Kong, Dubai, the Middle East (Jordan, Palestine, Israel) and Africa (Ethiopia, Kenya and South Africa). She then heads to Australia and South America (Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Mexico) before running across the USA and finishing her 100-day run back where she started in New York on the 11th of February 2019. "
Running across the USA ohhh I love it.
This will be another scammerbutcherfest.
Robert Young wrote:
"THE ROUTE
Mina’s challenge starts at the New York City Marathon on the 4th of November, before heading off to run across Europe (UK, France, Italy), Uzbekistan, India, China, Hong Kong, Dubai, the Middle East (Jordan, Palestine, Israel) and Africa (Ethiopia, Kenya and South Africa). She then heads to Australia and South America (Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Mexico) before running across the USA and finishing her 100-day run back where she started in New York on the 11th of February 2019. "
Running across the USA ohhh I love it.
This will be another scammerbutcherfest.
I don't think she means she's actually running across America. Probably riding an RV for most of it.
vivalarepublica wrote:
Oh, this should be fun.
Another 1000+ post thread incoming. I wonder how long this one will last...
This older belgian guy ran a marathon a day for one year. Slow pace of course.
If she's making money for charity, is it really worth outing her?
She's not running them, clearly walking.
Bbbbbb wrote:
If she's making money for charity, is it really worth outing her?
If you click on the donate button on her website, it takes you to a PayPal page that goes directly to her company, AKA: her account, not a real charity.
Letsrun is such a bunch of boring whiny critics. She’s raising money for charity. Who cares if she doesn’t run a 2:25 marathon? Compared to the elites your training looks like charity running too, the true elites in this world put you lot in the same catorgory as this woman and y’all are just mad this woman is slow af and still gets more recognition than y’all.. lol how SAD.
No wonder people think runners are the worst people to hang out with (and also never get laid).
RayD wrote:
Letsrun is such a bunch of boring whiny critics. She’s raising money for charity. Who cares if she doesn’t run a 2:25 marathon? Compared to the elites your training looks like charity running too, the true elites in this world put you lot in the same catorgory as this woman and y’all are just mad this woman is slow af and still gets more recognition than y’all.. lol how SAD.
No wonder people think runners are the worst people to hang out with (and also never get laid).
She’s doing this for personal gain, financially and for her profile. She’s a disgusting human being.
RayD wrote:
Letsrun is such a bunch of boring whiny critics. d y’all are just mad this woman is slow af and still gets more recognition than y’all.. lol how SAD.
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Nobody sounded angry, sounded like they just think stunt runs by people whose soul purpose is self promotion and raising money for questionable “charities” are crap. Her “charity” really does seem mostly bull shitty. It doesn’t do anything other than “raise awareness” about water scarcity. Any charity whose soul goal is to “raise awareness” is just crap to me. Would be interesting to see whose paying for her 100 day world tour.
That’s just not true wrote:
RayD wrote:
Letsrun is such a bunch of boring whiny critics. d y’all are just mad this woman is slow af and still gets more recognition than y’all.. lol how SAD.
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Nobody sounded angry, sounded like they just think stunt runs by people whose soul purpose is self promotion and raising money for questionable “charities” are crap. Her “charity” really does seem mostly bull shitty. It doesn’t do anything other than “raise awareness” about water scarcity. Any charity whose soul goal is to “raise awareness” is just crap to me. Would be interesting to see whose paying for her 100 day world tour.
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Had a look at the route on her website. Coming from South Africa it strikes me as odd that some of the towns are really off the beaten track. I can understand Cape Town and PE because of the water shortage there, but why not Johannesburg or Pretoria as well? There are literally millions more to reach than Cape Agulhas.
Globally acknowledged water expert? Never heard of her until now.