Equal time for skeptics: Some doubt Garside ran around the world

I'm aware of the controversy surrounding (see below post) Robert Garside's claim to have run around the world. The Guiness Book of World Records recognizes his claim.

Others don't.

Via my comments section, from Ultramarathon World:

Garside fails 24-hour test in London, 3-4 July 2003

After announcing that he had completed his world run on 13 June 2003 in New Delhi, India, Garside returned home to Britain where he was challenged by Channel 4 television to run 130 miles in 24 hours, a distance equal to one of the many long runs he claimed to have completed in the course of his world tour. Garside agreed, saying the challenge would pose no problems. The stunt was meant to lend some veracity to the many endurance feats he claimed while circling the globe. Although fully rested, and running on a flat track in perfect conditions, Garside failed spectacularly to live up to his rhetoric. He dropped out exhausted at 72 miles. The 24-hour run is a classic ultra marathon test of endurance. A 72-mile performance is insignificant. The world record for 24 hours is 188 miles. It was the first time Garside had run any significant monitored distance in the presence of independent, expert witnesses?

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