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Jan 16, 2024 34 min

A long walk around a big planet

from This Matters Hosted by Toronto Star

He's still waiting for the Guinness people to certify it, but former advertising executive (and long-ago Toronto punk musician) Ben Pobjoy believes he's set a record for walking the most "freestyle marathons" in one year, with a 2023 globe-strolling pace of almost five per week. That amounts to a distance longer than the circumference of the moon, on a journey that took him to five continents and 70 countries. He talks about what he saw and learned on his grand adventure, the best and worst days of the trip, and what he noticed most about Toronto when he came home. This episode was produced by Julia De Laurentiis Johnston, Paulo Marques and Edward Keenan. What would you like to hear on Toronto Star podcasts? Let us know in this survey and you can enter to win a $100 gift card.

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