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Photo: Bedrock Sandals: Andrew Bydlon
I’m Naresh Kumar. I run and ride a long way, mostly alone and unsupported, and I come back with stories about the strangers who keep me going: the farmer who paid for my breakfast in Missouri, the mechanic in Kansas who worked on my tandem until 10:30 at night, the stranger at a Wendy’s drive-thru who bought my dinner.
Since my first marathon in 2009 I’ve finished 58 ultramarathons, walked and run the length of New Zealand in sandals, raced unsupported across Australia and Kyrgyzstan, and ridden a tandem with an empty back seat across four continents against human trafficking, through my foundation, Freedom Seat. I post it as it happens, and I write it up properly afterwards.
If your brand, event or team values that kind of experience, I’d love to hear from you.
Get in touch →Also Wilderness, Rotary News, Bikepacking.com, KPTV Portland, WUSA9 Washington and Expedition Portal.
Twenty slides, twenty seconds each, six days after Kindness and I rolled into Bluff at the end of Freedom Seat.
And on foot: 58 ultras and 19 marathons, 4,328 race miles in all. Every race → Every country →
Each expedition had its own backers. Over the years I’ve also worked with Gossamer Gear, Huckberry, Yama Mountain Gear, Gran Fondo Cycles, Small Planet Sports, Quad Lock, Further Faster, Point6, Jeffson Bikes and Decathlon.
Also covered by The Hindu, Times Now, the Southland Times (Stuff), Channel 9 Australia and Adventure Journal.
Gear tested where it matters: unsupported, for weeks at a time, from desert heat to snow on the passes.
Day-by-day journals, photos and film from the road, written in my own words, like Pedaling 4 Freedom.
On endurance, fear, and what strangers teach you when you have nothing but a bike and a reason. I’ve told these stories at PechaKucha Night Wanaka and the Rotary International Convention in Hamburg.
I also build software: the live dashboard for the 2026 Big’s Backyard World Team Championship is mine. If your team builds for people who move outdoors, I’d love to help.
Tell me a little about you and what you have in mind.