Quebec ultra-marathoner preparing to run nearly 8,000 km from Florida to Quebec - Terrace Standard

A Quebec ultra-marathon runner is preparing for a nearly 8,000-kilometre run from the most southern point of the United States to Quebec’s Gaspé Peninsula.

The planned route, which will take him along the Florida Trail, the Appalachian Trail and the International Appalachian Trail, is 7,745 kilometres long, he said, “but I’ll probably get lost enough to reach 8,000 kilometres.”“It’s flat, there’s going to be heat, humidity, it will be swampy,” said Roch, who has never been to the U.S. state. “All these particularities don’t make the route reassuring, because I don’t know it at all.

“You might think that I’m training non-stop. Yes, I train more than average, but I’m not an Olympic athlete, I have a full-time job, I have three children,” said Roch, who works in information technology.“It’s clearly not age that’s a factor, it’s the will, the discipline to train every day,” he said.

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