Vegan marathon runner and multiple record holder Fiona Oakes is running “Fiona’s 625 mile December Challenge 2024” to raise needed funds to look after more than 400 rescued farmed animals who live at Tower Hill Stables Animal Sanctuary in Essex, England, the sanctuary she founded in 1996. She will be running 25 miles a day from the 1st to the 25th of December 2024.
In a Facebook post from 21st November, the sanctuary announced her campaign. She wrote, “As you may know, if you follow our social media, we have had a tough time over the past few years to keep going and running the Animal Sanctuary and we really want to carry on for as long as we can for the sake of all our 400 rescues. To this end, Fiona is going to take on a monumental running challenge this December and will attempt to run 25 miles a day – EVERY DAY – from the 1st to the 25th on December in the hope of raising as much as we can to help the sanctuary through the Winter months when the feed costs escalate – but also and extremely importantly, to show that she can do all the daily sanctuary work as WELL as run this distance demonstrating that living as a Vegan for over 50 years she is not just ‘surviving’ but “thriving” !”
On the homepage of the Fiona Oakes Foundation website, we can read the following about her running achievements:
“Fiona has competed in over 100 marathons and finished in the top 20 in two of the world’s Major Marathon series (Berlin and London), along with winning the Main Start and placing top 20 in the Great North Run. In conjunction with an illustrious road Marathon running career in 2012, Fiona became the first vegan woman to complete the gruelling ‘Marathon de Sables’ — a race she has completed twice more since — and in 2013 won the North Pole Marathon (yes, at the North Pole!) and it’s ‘sister’ race the Antarctic Ice Marathon. She now holds four Guinness recognised World Records in endurance events including being the fastest woman to run a Marathon on every Continent. Fiona’s successes are even more impressive when one learns she lost a kneecap as a teenager, causing her to experience constant pain when running.”
To donate to her campaign you can go to her GoFundMe page, and for updates on her progress, you can visit her Facebook Page.
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