{"id":36,"date":"2016-01-15T14:27:32","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T13:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sergegirard.fr\/en\/?page_id=36"},"modified":"2016-01-28T19:48:14","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T18:48:14","slug":"the-challenge","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sergegirard.fr\/en\/the-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"The challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VVl8Zgh9bTc?autoplay=1&amp;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Project: Run Around the Planet, Opus 8<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>New Opus:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Opus 7 was never finished so Serge decided to write a new major symphony: \u00ab\u00a0Run Around the Planet\u00a0\u00bb (RAP). \u00a0This opus 8 will begin with an adagio movement over 4 continents: Europe, North America, Oceania and Africa for a period of almost 14 months and 26,400 km.<\/p>\n<p justify=\"\">&#8220;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>Start:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The start will be from Paris on January 31, 2016.\u00a0 The \u201cRAP\u201d will follow the rules set by the World Runners Association.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Below are 4 major rules:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Start and finish at the same place<\/li>\n<li>Cover a minimum of 26,232 km<\/li>\n<li>Cross at least 4 continents<\/li>\n<li>Pass through 2 antipodal points<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For additional information please see the website:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldrunnerassociation.org\">www.worldrunnerassociation.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>Goal: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Better the performance of Tom Dennis, 55 year old Australian who finished his run around the World in 2013.\u00a0 He ran 26,232 km on 5 continents in 622 days.\u00a0 He started and finished in Sydney.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>Birth of the Idea:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Looking at what Jesper Olsen and Tony Mangan had accomplished, Serge discovered that one of his dreams had come true: the birth of an association grouping runners \u201cglobe trotters,\u201d The Word Runners Association (WRA).\u00a0 It did not take more than this to ignite the fire.\u00a0\u00a0 At the end of the summer 2015 the project took shape in Serge\u2019s mind but he was careful not to talk about it.\u00a0 The idea grew and by the beginning of December Serge found he had the minimum budget to begin.\u00a0 That left him only 2 months to organize his adventure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Project: Run Around the Planet, Opus 8 New Opus: Opus 7 was never finished so Serge decided to write a new major symphony: \u00ab\u00a0Run Around the Planet\u00a0\u00bb (RAP). \u00a0This opus 8 will begin with an adagio movement over 4 continents: Europe, North America, Oceania and Africa for a period of almost 14 months and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-36","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sergegirard.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sergegirard.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sergegirard.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sergegirard.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sergegirard.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sergegirard.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275,"href":"https:\/\/sergegirard.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36\/revisions\/275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sergegirard.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}