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Keep on Keeping on | Ultrarunner Ryan Keeping on his Iceland Ring Road World Record
The Shakeout Podcast
40 minutes 29 seconds
1 month ago
Keep on Keeping on | Ultrarunner Ryan Keeping on his Iceland Ring Road World Record
In 2024, Ryan Keeping made headlines from coast to coast, literally. Over the course of 99 days, the Halifax ultrarunner completed a cross country trek that took him from St. John’s NL all the way to Victoria, a journey of more than 7300 kilometres, all while fundraising for the Heart & Stroke Foundation.
Since then, the incredible feats of endurance running haven’t stopped, and Keeping was soon back at it with more outlandish tests of resolve, including a 250 km ultramarathon in under 44 hours and a 10–day, 660 km journey that took him the entire length of Florida, completely unsupported.
Now, Keeping is back in the news–and the record books–with perhaps his most audacious challenge yet; becoming the fastest person to run the entire perimeter of Iceland, a journey of nearly 1,400 km along its iconic Ring Road. Battling everything the northern country had to throw at him, Keeping stopped the clock in Reykjavik at 14 days, 13hrs and 38 mins, breaking the existing record by almost two days. On this episode of The Shakeout Podcast we catch up with the new world record holder to talk about the run itself, his origin story in endurance running and how it all starts with inspiring others to “flip the switch” and take on the impossible.
Follow Ryan's journey on Instagram @Ryan.Keeping
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The Shakeout Podcast
Stories, interviews and discussions about the running world, from the editors of Canadian Running magazine.