Ray Bauer

Ray Bauer (born 1948) is vice president of marketing at CMC Steel and a long-distance runner with plans to log 24,902 miles, equal to the equatorial circumference of the earth.

Bauer has logged his miles since 1978 and currently averages 900 miles per year at an average pace of 8.7 minutes per mile. To date he has covered over 22,500 miles. He plans to complete his current goal with a 10-mile run to Pontianak, Indonesia in September 2010. That was the equatorial city he marked in 1990 as the starting line on a world map which he uses to chart his progress.

After he completes the project, he expects to attempt a second circumference.

References

• Cason, Mike (January 22, 2008) "Hoover runner closes in on goal of running distance of Earth's circumference." Birmingham News