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Gill finished a grueling 295-kilometre (183
miles) challenge in a world record time of 24 hours, 19 minutes
and nine seconds, burning up to 5,000 calories a day.
The 34-year-old, who started the remarkable journey with the
first round in Antarctica on Jan. 31, ran the final race in
Miami on Wednesday in 3:26:24.
"It was a crazy ambition that I wanted to do. The challenge
seemed absolutely irresistible to me," Gill told BBC.
"Ten years ago, I just wanted to get fit and run the London
Marathon. Now, marathon running has literally taken me around
the world."
American Mike Wardian claimed the men's title with a total time
of 20:49:30 for seven races.
Competitors gathered for the event in Cape Town on Jan. 29
before traveling to Nova, Antarctica for the first round, where
Gill finished second in temperatures as low as -35 degrees
Celsius (95 F).
Gill won the next race in Cape Town before battling Australian
summer temperatures of around 35 degrees Celsius in Perth to
extend her winning run.
Four more victories in Dubai, Madrid, Santiago and Miami capped
an incredible week for Gill in which she also spent more than 63
hours flying over 88,500km across the globe.
"The first four marathons I was eating quite well and getting
enough calories in, and then marathons five, six and seven I've
actually been waking myself up because I've been so hungry,"
Gill added.
"That became a challenge, because I was burning four or five
thousand calories a day every day for a week.
"I'll get back to normal life and put myself back together again
because I'm sure I'll have some aching muscles."
(Reporting by Hardik Vyas in Bengaluru; Editing by Christian
Radnedge)
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