Record broken by first woman to run a marathon every day of the year

On top of running at least 15,444 kilometers in a single year, the 55-year-old also raised some €60,000 in funds for breast cancer research.

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00:00Belgian ultra-runner Ilde Dozogne takes the world record as the first woman to run a marathon

00:08every single day of the year, finally coming to a halt on Tuesday as she crossed the finish

00:13line in Ghent, Belgium.

00:15As a crowd of fellow runners celebrated the extraordinary feat, Ilde Dozogne speaks about

00:21the challenges she came across.

00:25I think the mental strain is harder than the physical.

00:29Of course physically everything has to be okay, otherwise you can't run for four hours

00:34every day, but it's more mental to be there at the start line every day again.

00:44On top of running at least 15,444 kilometres in a single year, the 55-year-old raised some

00:5260,000 euros in funds for breast cancer research.