Woman runs 7 marathons on 7 continents dressed as 7 different fruits

Until recently, Sally Orange had the Guinness Book Of World Records for the fastest female to complete a Marathon dressed as a piece of fruit.

But after Lorna Pursglove, who was dressed as a Chili Pepper ran faster in the 2017 London Marathon, she set herself a new challenge - to run seven marathons on seven continents, dressed as seven different fruits.

Her first marathon as a piece of fruit was in Afghanistan back in 2011, when she was dressed as a banana. Then she ran the US Marine Corps Marathon dressed as a watermelon, London was a strawberry, Africa a pineapple, New Zealand a kiwi fruit, and for her penultimate Marathon in Argentina she was dressed as a bunch of grapes.

For the final continent, the former British Army Major and now freelance Physiotherapist decided on a pear costume. She took on the snow, ice and sub-zero temperatures of the Antarctic Ice Marathon in Nove