After running the length of Africa, British extreme athlete Russ Cook said he only considered quitting once during his near year-long odyssey after he got kidnapped in the Congo by a gang armed with machetes. "The scariest moment was in the Congo, when I was on the back of a motorbike, thinking I was about to die, getting driven into the jungle. That was pretty nuts," the 27-year-old told reporters. "Probably for about one minute (I) thought about quitting, and then I realized I couldn't, so that was about as close as it got," he said.
The British runner travelled 10,000 miles - the equivalent of 386 marathons - and crossed 16 countries from South Africa to Tunisia , taking the concept of a charity run to a whole other level.
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