Sidney, Europe Brief News – Nedd Brockmann is a 23-year-old electrician who has just run 3,953 km (2,456 miles) from Perth’s Cottesloe Beach in Western Australia to Sydney’s Bondi Beach in the east in a staggering 46 days and 12 hours.
His unbelievable feat has inspired the nation and raised A$2.5m (£1.4m; $1.6m) for charity.
When Brockmann arrived at Sydney’s Bondi Beach on Monday – his unmistakable, bleach-blonde mullet pinned down under a baseball cap – it signaled the end of a 2,456-mile (3,953km) running voyage that had started on the opposite side of Australia 47 days prior.
It’s difficult for the 23-year-old to know where to start when recounting the physical toll placed on his body since setting off from Cottesloe Beach in Perth last month – the countless injuries, the endlessly aching joints, the sleep deprivation, the blisters or even the maggots growing in his toes.
That all explains the joy and relief etched across Brockmann’s face when he finally arrived to hordes of people at Bondi – Australia’s iconic surfing beach – and marked the occasion by draining champagne from his sweat-soaked shoe.
“I’d been through hell and back 10 times to get there – through every injury, all the sun, the rain, the road trains, the roadkill, the weather, the headwinds,” Brockmann said. “Just to get through that and then to finally see that amount of people in Bondi was out of this world. I couldn’t believe it.”
Brockmann, an electrician originally from Forbes, New South Wales, has endeared himself to the Australian public over the course of his transnational run. Many are calling for him to be crowned Australian of the Year in 2023.
