According to the schedule , Erokhin was to run from 55 to 60 km a day and finish in Sochi in 30 days on February 7 exactly at the 2014 Winter Olympics opening ceremony . The main part of the distance was run along the M4 Don highway . Erokhin passed 1376 km in 23 days and on 29 January he was in Krasnodar . He managed to visit Lipetsk , Voronezh and Rostov-on-Don while housing in hotels , publishing photos from his route on Instagram and giving interviews to journalists . He took some more days to reach Sochi , the goal of his race . Erokhin sometimes ran 80 or 90 km per day , so he finished on February 2 in the microdistrict Magri , at the administrative border of Sochi , the city of the 2014 Winter Olympics . He ran more than 1700 km , and on February 8 more than 130 thousand Russian roubles were gathered
2014 Winter Olympics opening ceremony
2014 Winter Olympics opening ceremony
Dmitry Erokhin