“It was about thousands of small decisions not to give up!”
Do you know where is Karakoram pass? It is in Northern Ladakh, near DBO! Sufia Sufi, 5 times Guinness World Record holder ran from Kanyakumari to Karakoram- 5000 kms in 86 days (daily average ≈ 58 kms)! Yes. What you just read is right. It is a pity that very few people know about her. Just imagine, you are standing for 1 hour outside in harsh heat, high humidity and continuous rain. And now again think. 86 days and daily 58 kms average distance running across entire India in rain, heat, winds, floods and high mountains! She finished it on 6th August.
Sufiya Sufi, an ultra-distance runner from Ajmer, Rajasthan, spent nearly a decade in the aviation industry before discovering her passion for running in 2017. What started as a fitness journey soon became one of India's greatest endurance stories.
Her earlier 5× Guinness World Records:
* Fastest woman to run *Kashmir to Kanyakumari* (4,000 km in 87 days, daily average ≈ 46 kms) She herself broke this record during this run and completed this distance in 68 days!
* Fastest woman to complete the *Indian Golden Quadrilateral* (6,000 km in 110 days, daily average ≈ 55 kms)
* First woman to run from *Siachen Base Camp to Kargil*
* Fastest overall runner on the *Manali to Leh* route (430 km in 98 hours i.e. in just 4 days across those high mountains!)
* First woman to run the *entire length of Qatar*
