Former Guinness World Record Holder To Run 17,000 Miles

Announcing The Great Global Friendship Run

 Feature Story
For Immediate Release

Contact:
Stan Cottrell, Chairman
(770) 491-6867
Friendship Sports Association Inc.
98 Top Mast Drive
Clayton, GA 30525

Atlanta, Georgia, April 1, 2012 – Friendship Sports Association charity announces that Stan Cottrell, one of the all-time-great names of ultra distance runners, will run 34 miles per day, for 2 consecutive days per week until he runs through all the world’s 257 countries, territories and colonies.  He will spend one week in each country with festivities, seminars, sports events, cultural events, children’s events and work with orphans.

This adventure and epic odyssey of global friendships will begin in 2012.
Stan Cottrell is now 68 years old.

After running more than 200,000 miles thus far, Stan has learned first hand there is a rarely tapped reservoir of benign power for international diplomacy that has come from running through different countries.

 ”We need more people with a vision which allows people to connect in a non-threatening way.”

Upon hearing those words from a key national leader, acclaimed ultra-distance runner, Stan Cottrell of Tucker Georgia, set his eyes upon the finish-line of this great event – no matter how lengthy or how many years it requires.  Knowing tens of millions of people from every corner of the earth will be cheering him on, he will complete this compelling mission.

With major advances in communication technologies and growing globalization themes, an unprecedented opportunity to further bridge greater understanding between cultures is on the horizon. It will take a total of some 17,000 miles for Stan to run in most or all of the 257 countries, territories and colonies of the world.  This will create a unique dimension of people-to-people initiative in Sports Diplomacy … and the beginning of many steps of a long journey to establish lasting friendships which span the globe.