Fastest female on earth to complete a half marathon on each continent and then the North Pole besides all seven continents, she is now officially into Guinness book of World Records.
The time for running the race aside, the feat required extensive travel round the globe. She took only 10 days, 23hrs and 37mins to record the fastest time to run a half marathon on each continent (female).
Combine the North Pole marathon, often referred as the World’s Coolest Marathon, with the seven continents and she achieved it in 62 days, 12 hours, 58 minutes and 49 seconds, fastest for any woman on earth so far. This has been officially confirmed by Guinness.
Teudon Morgan, a Nigerian expatriate and a mother of four boys rediscovered herself some eight years ago. Determined to change her life, she set off to change her lifestyle first. It started with getting her obese body back in shape. She weighed 121kg in 2008. She reduced it by almost half within a year.
And then she discovered running. Since then, there has been no looking back for Tuedon (Tee), 43. Once she started running, the records came along.
“When I was a child, my parents bought every copy of the Guinness World Records that was published. I remember saying to myself that one day that will be me. But as I got older and started fighting with my weight, I felt my dreams were far-fetched,” Tee tells Community.
That was until she met Ziyad Rahim, a Pakistani expatriate and a fellow marathoner who is now a multiple Guinness World Records title holder for his marathon running. This record, Tee says, was his idea.
And she did no special training for the challenge, just her regular runs. However, she believes training for a marathon is like taking on a second full time job.
Living in the Middle East where temperatures in the summer could be close to 50 degrees Celsius and the terrain is really flat, flying to Antarctica where you have temperatures of -22 degrees calculus or the North Pole of -42 degrees Celsius “is different to say the least.”
“I run 10 km, five days a week. I cross train a lot and do core work. I don’t run very fast as that isn’t one of my goals, but I put in the work. Honestly, I had no special training for this attempt,” says Tee.
The most challenging part of the attempt for her was not getting enough sleep. They would finish a race and would fly over to the next race.
“I was so tired and extremely hungry. But the worst came when flying from New York City to South America as the airlines ran out of water. By the time we landed in South America we had two hours to check in to the hotel and get ready for the race again. My feet were twice their normal size and I was worried my shoes wouldn’t fit,” recalls Tee.
The North Pole Marathon follows. It is no easy feat as it is not run on land. It is essentially running on frozen water. Antarctica, she observes, was also impossible to train for, as she runs on a flat surface in Qatar and training to run on hills can be challenging.
Tee says her ‘Triple Seven quest’ was supposed to be completed in a week. That’s the three “sevens” in the name, seven continents, seven races, seven days.
And they would have made it but the weather over the South Pole turned cranky and slowed things down before they could get that last race in so they turned back to go to South America and finally got in on the 9th day.
“We slept on airplanes, ran sometimes in the middle of the night and went days without showers. We spent 60 hours on airplanes just getting to the races. At one point, we touched down on three continents, and ran three marathons, in about 40 hours,” says Tee.
But all of it was worth it when she got a notification on her phone one fine day. She was asked to log on to her page.
“My hands were shaking and I felt tears down my cheeks. This record means so much to me. My heath was really deteriorating and the doctors continuously told me I had to change my lifestyle,” Tee recalls the moment she got to know about her records.
“All I wanted was to lose weight but the more I pushed myself the more I wanted. Running the Seven continents twice and becoming the first Nigerian to run all Seven Continents and the North Pole to top it up with a GWR means so much. I am Officially Amazing,” she smiles.
Tee believes it was with the help of God that she has been able to achieve all this. “Looking back now I know it was the hand of God. To run the North Pole under those conditions with no training what so ever, it only takes God’s grace,” she tells Community.
Initially, it was all about the weight loss before she discovered running. She soon realised that it was a holistic approach of mind, body and soul. She had to learn to eat right and it came to her eventually.
The minute she started to learn more about food and the effect it has on the body and running, she says, she started to realise that her body can only take so much at certain times during the day.
“I like to think that I eat right. I run six days a week and cycle, too. Am learning to swim and someday will take it all to another level,” says Tee, talking about how she maintains her fitness post weight loss.
She intends to run hundreds of marathons in lots of countries and continue to meet new people and inspire them.
Tee recently completed her 51st marathon in her 40th country. She participated in The Z adventure Cruise marathons and they travelled to six countries and ran six marathons.
“That was an Epic experience and my first time on a Cruise. I know I want more Guinness World Records titles,” says the marathon runner.
Next up, she wants to attempt a record in cycling, Fastest journey from Land’s End to John-O’-Groats by bicycle (female) and one day Fastest circumnavigation by bicycle (female). It would sure require a lot of commitment and focus but she is “mentally preparing herself for it.”

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