Richard Bowles

Richard Bowles (born 19 September 1978, in Leicester, England) is an Awarded International Speaker and Multi-Record Adventurer. Rated in the Top 25 APAC speakers, he combines business, adventure and research to gain insight into the challenges of succeeding in rapidly changing times. 

As an adventurer, Bowles voluntarily puts himself through countless extreme experiences and stressful situations as a “giant life experiment" to learn more about what is required to overcome challenges amoid the chaos. Having survived volcano eruptions, crocodile-infested rivers, life-threatening foot infections, desert warfare and shotgun-wielding lunatics, he engineers his accomplishments in volatile, unpredictable and complex situations into real business success - think extreme adventures colliding with forward-thinking business acumen.

In 2012, Bowles became the first person to run Australia’s Bicentennial National Trail (BNT). Running from Healesville, Victoria to Cooktown, Queensland, he covered 5,330 km in five months.

Only two weeks after completing the BNT, Bowles ran New Zealand's Te Araroa Trail, at 3,054km becoming the first person to complete it.

In 2013 Bowles ran the Israel National Trail, covering its 1,009 km length in 13 days after a life-threatening foot infection delayed his original plan of 12 days.

Later that year, he became the first person to run an exploding volcano, Mount Sinabung in North Sumatra, after covering 800km from the east of the island to its west.

In 2014 Bowles completed South Australia's 1,200 km Heysen Trail, averaging 85 km a day in 14 days, smashing the previous 25-day record.

In 2017 Dr Ricardo Costa of Monash University approached Bowles about testing his endurance fitness. Bowles ran 50 km a day for a week on a treadmill in a 32 °C climate-controlled tent, while carrying 12 kg. This was to replicate multi-stage races and the nutrition requirements needed in desert environments.

Other adventure achievements
2010 — Tenzing Hillary Everest Marathon, Nepal — Australian Record Holder 2010
2010 — Mind Alpine Challenge, Alpine Region, Victoria, Australia Overall Winners Team Outer Edge
2010 — Wilsons Prom 48 km, Wilsons Promontory, Victoria, Australia — former Course Record Holder 2010
2011 — Tasmanian 3 Peaks Race, Launceston — Hobart, Overall Winners.
2012 — The Australian Bicentennial National Trail 5330 km — First to run the trail's entirety in 5.5 months — World-Record-Holder
2012 — Te Araroa Trail (New Zealand) 3054 km — First to run the trail's entirety in 65 days — World-Record-Holder
2012 — Ran over 10,160 kilometres of trail, equivalent to over 240 marathons
2013 — Israel National Trail (Israel)1009 km — Ran the trail entirety in 14 days .
2013 — First to run around an exploding volcano in Northern Sumatra
2014 — Baw Baw to Bourke Street, a three-day running record from Mt Baw Baw in Melbourne, Australia — to Bourke Street in the city's CBD
2014 — Heysen Trail, South Australia 1200 km — 14-day record end to end. Former World-Record-Holder
2016 — 250km Heated Tent Run for Monash University research project into endurance
2019 — One on One insight into the kaihōgyō ("circling the mountain") is an ascetic practice performed by Tendai Buddhist monks. A 1,000 days of marathons.
2019 — Pulled a hand-rickshaw in Kolkata, India while living and working as a wallah for one week. surviving on UD$2.00 a day

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Category:1978 births
Category:Australian ultramarathon runners
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Category:Male ultramarathon runners