“The idea is to have Christmas in Sicily and then drive back up to the French Alps and be in the mountains, running and skiing in the snow for a month in January,” said Mr Butter, from Cranborne, Dorset.
“But Covid is causing a few problems, so we re going to be hitting Sicily sooner than we thought. But wherever we are in Italy, we will be in the van and I will have only just recently have stopped running, so it will be the first day where I haven t run a marathon for the last three or four months.”
Former banker Mr Butter quit his career in the financial services industry to embark on his solo global marathon expedition in January 2017, after being inspired by a friend with terminal cancer.