A SCOTTISH teacher has completed his journey to run every street in Glasgow after two years.
Michael Shanks took on this incredible challenge at the beginning of the first lockdown as a way of making the most of his daily exercise.
The modern studies teacher has now ran all 6143 streets in the city, finishing the final stretch outside of Glasgow City Chambers on Wednesday morning.
Shanks said he was inspired by an American athlete who completed a similar feat, running every street in San Francisco in 30 days.
He said: “I think to start with it was just a use of my daily exercise during the first lockdown when it was the only reason you could leave the house really.
“I realised I was just running the same place round the same park, so I decided to start adding new streets and then I wondered if there was a way to kind of map that, so I found an athlete in America called Rickey Gates whose ran every single street in San Francisco.
“He did it in 30 days, it’s taken me two years.”
Covering every inch of the city’s pavements gave Shanks the opportunity to discover more about his home.
He explained part of his motivation to keep going was exploring areas he thought he knew as well as meeting friendly faces along the way.
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