What is the route? Where is R4T going?

We conducted research on three different options for the R4T route and distances travelled. We selected our final route based on the following reasons:

  • Beginning and ending in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
  • Reaching a significantly large population.
  • Running in at least 30 different countries.
  • Logistics of running in remote locations.
  • Locations of the charities.
  • Geographical limitations (e.g., mountainous terrain).
  • Access in and out of countries.
  • Safety of, and risks to, the runners (especially dangerous areas where there is political unrest, wars, terrorist activity).

In total, running the route will take approximately 200 days.

Our research shows that we will be running in and out of dozens of major centers around the world, representing a total population of approximately 360 million. There will also be millions of people along the routes between these major centers as well.

Here is the list of countries in which we will be running (along with the major cities we'll be passing through):

Canada - Initial legs - Mid September: Ottawa, Kingston, Toronto, Hamilton, Guelph, Kitchener-Waterloo, London, Windsor, October: Vancouver, Victoria

United States - Initial legs - Mid September to mid October: Detroit, Chicago, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Kansas City, Denver, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento, Portland, Seattle

New Zealand - Mid to late October: Auckland, Hamilton, Rotorua, Napier, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin

Australia - Early November: Adelaide, Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney, Brisbane

Japan - Mid November: Tokyo, Shizuoka, Nagoya, Kyoto, Osaka, Hiroshima, Kitakyushu

South Korea - Late November: Busan, Seoul

China - Early December: Beijing, Shanghai, Nanning

Hong Kong - Early December:

Vietnam - Mid December: Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh

Cambodia - Mid December: Phnom Penh

Thailand - Mid to late December: Bangkok

India - Late December - early January, 2014: Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Ahemdabad, Jaipur, Delhi

South Africa - Early January 2014: Durban, Johannesburg, Pretoria

Tanzania - Mid January: Dar Es Salaam

Kenya - Mid January: Mombasa, Nairobi

Uganda - Mid January: Kampala

Rwanda - Mid January: Kigali

Greece - Mid January: Athens, Marathon, Patras

Italy - Mid to late January: Bari, Naples, Rome, Florence, Genoa

France - Late January and early February: Nice, Marseille, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Clermont-Ferrand, Bourges, Orleans, Paris, Lille

Spain - Late January: Barcelona, Valencia, Madrid, Valladolid, Bilbao

Belgium - Mid February: Brussels, Antwerp

Netherlands - Mid February: Rotterdam, Amsterdam

Germany - February and early March: Dusseldorf, Cologne, Bonn, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Munich, Dresden, Berlin, Hamburg

Austria - Late February: Salzburg, Linz, Vienna

Slovakia - Late February: Bratislava

Czech Republic - Late February: Brno, Prague

Sweden - Early March: Malmo, Stockholm

Norway - Early March: Oslo, Bergen

Denmark - Early March: Odense, Copenhagen

Scotland - Mid March: Edinburgh, Glasgow

England - Mid March: Newcastle, Carlisle, Ambleside, Leeds, Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, London, Bristol

Wales - Mid March: Newport, Cardiff, Pembroke Dock

Ireland - Mid to late March: Roselare, Dublin

Northern Ireland - Mid to late March: Belfast

United States - Final legs - Late March: New York, Boston

Canada - Final legs - Late March: Montreal, Ottawa. Celebration time.