Matteo Grasso will take on a three-day challenge on the Jurassic Coast to raise funds for a school.
A young farmer from Somerset is in training to run the equivalent of more than three marathons in three days without shoes.
He plans to run the route from Charmouth to Studland in Dorset on consecutive days between 22 and 24 March.He will run the route with his brother Giacomo Grasso and colleague Basil Gibson, who will both be wearing shoes.The trio work at Higher Farm near Castle Cary, where they practise sustainable farming.
They plan to build kitchen gardens at Hazlegrove Prep School in Sparkford to teach pupils about the benefits of locally grown, natural food. Mr Grasso said, for example, if you were to ask most children where a carrot grows, “they wouldn't know if it came from underground or from a tree.“I started experimenting barefoot around the farm and thought maybe I can use this to make my challenge a bit more challenging,” he said.
He said his goal was to make his feet like “Hobbit feet”, referencing the barefoot, leathery-soled characters in JRR Tolkien’s Middle-earth novels.
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