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- Fiona Oakes (born 1 August 1966) is a British distance runner who holds four world records for marathon running. In 2013, she won both the Antarctic Ice Marathon and the North Pole Marathon.
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Fiona Oakes (born 1 August 1966) is a British distance runner who holds four world records for marathon running. [1][2][3][4][5] In 2013, she won both the Antarctic Ice Marathon and the North Pole Marathon.
Oct 5, 2023 · Despite losing her right kneecap to a tumor as a teen, Fiona Oakes has established herself as one of the greatest distance runners of our time. Here’s a timeline of her record-breaking career.
Oct 23, 2018 · British runner and vegan advocate Fiona Oakes explains what drives her to run the toughest races on earth.
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Mar 26, 2018 · Who is Fiona Oakes? In 2013, British athlete Fiona Oakes began her record-breaking journey to completing in a marathon on every continent. Despite losing a kneecap from an illness she had at 17, this didn't stop the 44-year-old from taking on marathon challenges in weather conditions that even the best runners would avoid.
- Fiona’s Vegan Journey
- The Sanctuary That Was Never Planned
- Running For Good
- Media Hostility and Manipulation
- What About Plant-Based Fake Meat?
- Do only Non-Human Animals Matter?
Some vegans have been vegan for so long that they cannot remember when they become vegan. For Fiona, being her and being a vegan are the same thing. She has always been the ethical vegan she is today. Therefore, she has to rely on others to tell the beginning of her vegan journey: “I never really remember a pivotal or a light bulb moment. I’m going...
You may think that opening an animal sanctuary is something that requires years of planning if you do it at a scale where you will be responsible for the well-being of hundreds of big animals for life. It’s not always like that: “After being vegan for a few years, it was my dream to have a sanctuary. I never thought it would become a reality. I’m n...
At one point, as a real-life Forest Gump, Fiona started running…well, it wasn’t quite like that. She first became a vegan firefighter woman in a world of carnist firefighter men — to show them what veganism can do — and then, this happened: “I joined the fire brigade, and I did that for a year or whatever. I then thought ‘this is still not enough. ...
Fiona quickly learnt what she was up against. She thought that being the best while being vegan would immediately open the eyes of many people about veganism — as around that time most people still believed that it was unhealthy — but what she learned was how much powerful the animal agricultural industry was in trying to silence her message. In pa...
For the first ten years, I was a vegan, I eat lots of junk food. I felt that I was vegan for the animals and the environment, and my health did not matter much. I was, of course, wrong, as without good health you cannot help any animal — in the same way, that when you are flying on a plane the flight attendants instruct passengers to put on their o...
Despite Fiona talking in such a colloquial style that makes you think she may be a local villager who spent her entire life in the Essex countryside, we should not forget how far she has travelled all over the world — who among us has been to Antarctica and the Sahara Desert? She has been around and must have seen very interesting stuff. Staff happ...
Jan 2, 2020 · The retained firefighter who is also the patron of several charities is a three-time finisher of and the first female vegan to complete the Marathon des Sables, the six-stage race which covers a...
May 30, 2019 · Fiona Oakes is the greatest runner you’ve never heard of. She’s a 4X world record holder in distance running, and she has completed some of the toughest endurance running challenges on earth including the formidable Marathon des Sables, the Antarctic Ice Marathon, and the North Pole Marathon.
