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Follow Dr Strings and Nurse Hopkins in their world race, and see how far Team Extreme has travelled together. One shared adventure for nine charities.

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Two runners.
One world.

Dr Strings and Nurse Hopkins are racing 24,894 miles around the world. Who’ll get there first?

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Dr Strings

412.21 miles

24,894-mile target1.66%

Nurse Hopkins

241.34 miles

24,894-mile target0.97%

£1,500raised together for nine charities

Supporting people with learning disabilities and protecting the natural world.

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Follow the journey around the world

Follow Dr Strings, Nurse Hopkins and Team Extreme around the world.

The world race atlasHastings → the world → Hastings

24,894-mile virtual route

Route waypoints

The whole route, one place at a time

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Chapter 1Hastings to Paris
1. HastingsStart · 0 miles
2. Rye9.6 miles
3. Camber Sands14 miles
4. Dungeness20.2 miles
5. Folkestone34.7 miles
6. Dover41.8 miles
7. English Channel54.5 miles
8. Calais68.4 miles
9. Paris214.5 miles
Chapter 2Europe and the Caucasus
1. Black Forest600 miles
2. Vienna900 miles
3. Budapest1,010 miles
4. Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina1,264 miles
5. Belgrade1,384.9 miles
6. Istanbul1,740.9 miles
7. Tbilisi2,563.3 miles
Chapter 3Armenia, Iran and the Silk Road
1. Yerevan2,670.2 miles
2. Tabriz2,843.8 miles
3. Tehran3,172.3 miles
4. Isfahan3,378.2 miles
5. Yazd3,543.4 miles
6. Mashhad3,966.1 miles
7. Ashgabat4,099.2 miles
8. Bukhara4,448.1 miles
9. Samarkand4,582 miles
Chapter 4India and the Himalayas
1. Delhi5,541.2 miles
2. Agra5,655.4 miles
3. Lucknow5,835.2 miles
4. Kathmandu6,112 miles
Chapter 5Tibet and China
1. Lhasa6,487 miles
2. Chengdu7,264.5 miles
3. Xian7,640.1 miles
4. Shanghai8,398.3 miles
5. Beijing9,061.5 miles
Chapter 6Mongolia and Siberia
1. Ulaanbaatar9,788 miles
2. Irkutsk10,111.4 miles
3. Yakutsk11,266.7 miles
4. Magadan11,993.5 miles
Chapter 7Chukotka and the Bering Strait
1. Anadyr12,916.3 miles
2. Egvekinot13,061.6 miles
3. Lavrentiya13,296.7 miles
4. Uelen13,349 miles
5. Wales13,410.5 miles
6. Nome13,519.7 miles
Chapter 8Alaska and western Canada
1. Koyuk13,648.5 miles
2. Galena13,773.6 miles
3. Nenana14,005.5 miles
4. Fairbanks14,050.5 miles
5. Whitehorse14,540.2 miles
6. Vancouver15,458.1 miles
Chapter 9Pacific coast and the western parks
1. Seattle15,579.6 miles
2. Portland15,724.3 miles
3. San Francisco16,259.1 miles
4. Yosemite16,414.3 miles
5. Los Angeles16,687.1 miles
6. Grand Canyon17,033.2 miles
7. Zion17,106.2 miles
8. Bryce Canyon17,160.3 miles
9. Capitol Reef17,227.4 miles
10. Grand Teton17,611 miles
11. Yellowstone17,665.4 miles
Chapter 10American plains and eastern cities
1. Cody17,738.9 miles
2. Rapid City18,028.6 miles
3. Badlands18,074.7 miles
4. Chicago18,837.4 miles
5. Louisville19,106.7 miles
6. Washington, D.C.19,581 miles
7. New York19,784.5 miles
8. Boston19,972.2 miles
Chapter 11Canada, Greenland and Iceland
1. Montreal20,224.4 miles
2. Quebec20,369.6 miles
3. Halifax20,767.9 miles
4. St. John's21,328.2 miles
5. Nuuk22,476.6 miles
6. Tasiilaq22,900.1 miles
7. Reykjavik23,370.2 miles
8. Akureyri23,524.1 miles
Chapter 12Shetland, Scotland and home
1. Lerwick24,176.3 miles
2. Inverness24,392 miles
3. Edinburgh24,503.8 miles
4. York24,665.9 miles
5. London24,839.8 miles
6. HastingsFinish · 24,894 miles

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