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ISLAND HOPPING

The Kangaroo Island ‘Run With the Roos’ Marathon is not one of those marathons you just happen to train a bit for, and then go and run.

It takes logistics not unlike NASA landing the InSight spacecraft on Mars to get there, so it definitely falls into the category of ‘destination marathon’.

In fact, there were a number of overseas runners there, several of whom had skipped the bigger Aussie marathons like Melbourne or Gold Coast in favour of this race as their Australian run as part of their mission to complete seven marathons on

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