Meet the R4T Runners

The core team of distance runners is being assembled. Some runners have already committed their time to R4T while others are currently considering joining the core team. Here are the brief bios of the current team members. They are experienced distance runners with tremendous running backgrounds. They are passionate about R4T and its causes and they believe that anything is possible if you set your mind to it. They are the perfect ambassadors for Run for Tomorrow.

Gavin Goodwin (South Africa) 

Gavin started running in 1999. In addition to numerous marathons he has run the world renowned 56 mile ultra-marathon Comrades race nine times with a best time of 9:21 hours, and has run the Two Oceans 56km Ultras in Cape Town seven times. He typically runs an average of four marathons, Comrades and Two Oceans a year, and trains an average of 1000km in the six months leading up to Comrades. Gavin played professional squash in Europe from 1985 – 1995 and returned to his home in South Africa 1995 and opened and ran his own business in Durban until 2009. 
Read More and Donate!

Dave Major (United Kingdom)

Dave has run over fifty marathons each year, every year, since 2006 and has completed more marathons than any other runner in Britain in the last 5 years. He has run a marathon in 30 countries. In total he has completed over 450 marathons and ultra-marathons. In 2008 Dave collected 3rd Place in North America for the most marathons completed by a runner. In 2009 he went one better with 2nd place. 
Read More and Donate!

Linda Major (United Kingdom)

Linda has run more than 300 marathons. She is currently second in the UK for the most marathons completed by a female. She has run a marathon in thirty different countries, and was the first female to run 52 marathons in one calendar year in the UK. She has won numerous awards for her marathon running and coaches new and aspiring runners to attain their goals. 
Read More and Donate!

Steve Edwards (United Kingdom)

Steve has run over 500 marathons, and in 2013 to coincide with R4T he will have run over 500 marathons in under a 3:30 time. In 1990, at the age of 28, he became the youngest athlete in the world to run 100 marathons. Two years later, aged just 30, he passed the 200 marathon landmark, again, the youngest athlete ever to do so. In 1992 he also broke the world record for running the most marathons in a one year period, a total of 87. He has run the Brathay 10 Marathons in 10 days challenge four times. 
Read More and Donate!

Rajat Chauhan (India)

Dr. Rajat Chauhan is a sports medicine doctor from India, and the founder and medical director of ‘Back 2 Fitness’ – a chain of sports medicine and musculoskeletal medicine rehab centres across India. He is also a columnist for the Mint Business newspaper in India, and the owner, race director and medical director of La Ultra – the world’s highest altitude ultramarathon (up to 17,700 feet), held in northern India. Rajat has served for several years as the medical doctor for a number of marathons in India, and brings to the team over 27 years of running, including several years in England where he did his medical training. He has run in events ranging from middle distance to ultramarathons, including over 100 official and unofficial marathons. 
Read More and Donate!

Jup Brown (New Zealand)

Jup Brown is a New Zealander who has a love of sports and a desire to do something different with every day.  Although having only taken up distance running in the past few years he has been able to raise tens of thousands of dollars for charities through his achievements. He ran his first marathon in 2007 in Australia, and has since gone on to running a number of ultra-marathons, including the highest altitude ultramarathon in the world, the 222 km LA Ultramarathon in the Himalayas. In 2011 he completed the Tenzing Hillary Everest marathon, Nepal, and carried 8kgs of garbage away that he’d picked up on the way up the mountain. Also in 2011 he ran 100km on a treadmill to raise money for charity and ran the length of New Zealand for the Stroke Foundation, averaging just over a marathon distance for each of his 67 days on the road. In 2012 he ran the length of Japan, raising funds for Tsunami relief by running 4,259kms in 97 days (43 km a day). 
Read More and Donate!

Yolanda Holder (United States)

American Yolanda Holder is the current Guinness World record holder for “Most Marathons Run in a Calendar Year by a woman”, running 120 marathons in 2012 (beating her own previous world record). She is the only woman who has completed more than one hundred marathons in a calendar year twice. Yolanda has completed 423 marathons/ultras, including 11 consecutive days of official marathons in 2012 and 93 consecutive days of unofficial marathons in 2011. She has also completed six 100 mile races, with a best time of 25 hours. Yolanda writes, “Marathoning is a great way to raise awareness about the importance of healthy living and exercising. I have a passion for marathoning.” Yolanda is an Author, Motivational Speaker, wife and mother of two adult children.  Her mission is to promote good health, inspire, motivate, and encourage people of all ages to get out and get fit, while having fun. 
Read More and Donate!

Jane Trumper (Australia)

Jane started running when she was living in Japan in 1998. Her brother had just had his first heart attack and bypass surgery at the age of 38. His death has inspired her to help others lead a healthier life. Jane has run over 100 marathons and 50 ultra-marathons and was the first woman to complete the Australian Grand Slam of Australian Ultras (4 runs of over 100 miles in less than 4 months). In April of 2012 she became the first woman to run 664kms across The Simpson Desert (in 10 days, with temperatures of up to 45 degrees Celsius). Jane lives in Sydney, Australia. She works as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Anaesthetics, is married to Peter, and has three children and a Bernese Mountain Dog called Darcy. 
Read More and Donate!