Dan Thompson who has previously run in 126 countries in Africa, South-East Asia, North, Central & South America, Europe, South Asia, the Pacific and the Middle East is now in Santo Domingo to run the Dominican 10km leg of his Run the World Challenge.
The meeting point for the Dominican run on Thursday, 16 November 2017 is at the Puerta del Conde at 4pm on Thursday, 16 November. The run will be along the Av. Independencia, returning along the seaside drive (Malecon), finishing in the Parque Colon next to the Santo Domingo Cathedral. He is expected to make it to the finish line around 5:30pm.
Thompson flew into the Dominican Republic from San Juan, Puerto Rico where on Wednesday, 15 November 2017, he ran the Puerto Rican 10 km. Next he travels to Port-au-Prince, Haiti for the run on 17 November and then on to Hamilton (Bermuda) for a Sunday, 19 November run.
Run the World is an extraordinary challenge created by Thompson himself. The British businessman and sports enthusiast has undertaken the challenge to run 10km in every country in the world, a total of 206 countries, prior to the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.
Thompson has accepted the challenge to promote the physical and mental health benefits of sport and physical activity, and to raise money for cancer research following the recent death of his mother from cancer. The funds are donated to the Cancer Research Charity.
Thompson comments: “As we are all aware, this is the region that suffered enormously from hurricanes Irma and Maria and I thought long and hard about whether it was appropriate to travel there in November. In the end I came to the conclusion that tourism is an important part of the local economies and that visiting, and helping to show that the countries in question are open for business, is one of the best ways I could contribute. I hope that’s the right decision.
If you would like to support Thompson’s challenge, then please visit www.justgiving.com/Dan-Thompson11
For more information on the run, call 829 341 1343
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16 November 2017
