“I’ve always been quite into sport: football, running, tennis I always enjoyed as a kid when I was growing up. But I got more and more into running as I got a bit older.
“I had run a couple of marathons before and I really enjoyed them, so I was thinking of a physical challenge I could incorporate with travelling.
“I came up with this challenge. The list of countries that I wanted to visit kept growing so in the end I was like, ‘You know what, I’m just going to go all out for it and just try to do pretty much every country in Europe and while I’m at it do some fundraising as well and incorporate that sort of challenge at the same time.’”
At the time of writing, Angus’ efforts have raised around £7,000 of a target of £10,000 to be donated to Cancer Research UK.
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It is a campaign particularly close to his heart, due to several members of his family being affected by the disease.
“Cancer Research UK have been really good to my family in the past with support and helping in those situations,” he said. “So I felt an obligation to give back to them.”
It all began in the Moldovan capital of Chisinau and has taken Angus - who is completing the vast majority of the marathon runs alone - through eastern Europe to Scandinavia and, more recently, the central areas of the continent.
His challenge is scheduled to conclude in London on Saturday December 13.
“I’d probably say the first one was the hardest, just because I was a bit naive coming into the challenge!” he said. “It was just coming off the back of the summer holidays so I hadn’t been the best with dieting or training.
“My first one was in Moldova, in Chisinau in the middle of August. It was still boiling hot so I was running in 30-degree heat and I was underprepared, to say the least, so that one was very tough!
“My favourite, I ran from Nice to Monaco, the south coast of France. I was basically running alongside the coastline the whole way, it was a really beautiful sunny day.
“I had all the scenic views, and then running into Monaco was pretty special. And then running back to Nice. That was probably my favourite one.”