<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <docID>327663</docID> <postdate>2024-08-26 15:16:01</postdate> <headline>After 13,383km, this endurance runner just can’t stop</headline> <body><p><img class="size-full wp-image-327664" src="https://citynews.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/sean-bell-resized-e1724649339406.jpeg" alt="" width="708" height="472" /></p> <caption>Sean Bell averaged 84km a day as he broke the world record for running around Australia. Photo: supplied</caption> <p><span class="kicker-line">By <strong>Melissa Woods</strong> in Melbourne</span></p> <p><strong>What do you do after breaking the world record for running around mainland Australia? If you're Sean Bell, you jump on a plane to Tasmania and run around that too.</strong></p> <p>The 25-year-old Victorian has become the fastest person to circumnavigate Australia on foot, finishing 13,383km in 158 days, 14 hours and 52 minutes.</p> <p>He averaged 84km per day and broke the existing record by 11 days.</p> <p>"I set the goal six years ago, to run around Australia for charity, and it was originally going to be 2021 except for COVID so I pushed it back," Bell told AAP.</p> <p>"I ran anti-clockwise, up the east coast first as far as Townsville, then across to Mount Isa, up to Darwin, Katherine, Broome, Perth and across to Adelaide and then to Melbourne.</p> <p>"I didn't have a single rest day and went through about 30 pairs of runners - running on passion and caffeine each day."</p> <p>Trying to raise additional funds for the Make a Wish Foundation, Bell gave himself four days' rest before this week tackling Tasmania, which is a lazy 580km.</p> <p>"Tasmania isn't a part of the official route but I wanted to go there as one last little adventure and one last push to enhance fund-raising.</p> <p>"I'm choosing to hurt for these sick kids who are no doubt hurting more."</p> </body>