Official Sponsor – Adriana Istrate, world record holder

We are honored to announce that world record holder Adriana Istrate, the world’s toughest marathon runner, has joined Restart Energy as our new ambassador. Before redefining the impossible and setting a new world record, completing 14 marathons on all 7 continents, Adriana had a normal daily life, a regular job and mediocre hobbies. One day she realized that there is more to life and started chasing her dreams.

How it all started

Adriana’s story is inspiring and shows everyone that nothing is out of your reach as long as you believe in yourself and are not afraid to work towards your goals. Being an ordinary woman over 30 one day and setting world records the next is definitely a very impressive turnover that shows everyone that we can do extraordinary things if we work for them.

Realizing that her life was spent too much at the office working late and paying for gym memberships that she couldn’t use due to lack of time, she discovered the strength to change her life – and, more importantly, herself – for the better.

Andrei Rosu opened her eyes to her true potential in a presentation on energy and vitality. She was so impressed by what she heard that by the end of the presentation she had decided: she was going to start running.

Like all beginnings, it was tough at first. He had to train every day and started running in some local marathons in Bucharest. However, his training paid off in just 9 months, finishing his first major sporting event after the sixth month of training: the 21km Transmarathon – and continuing to cross the finish line of 42 km Bucharest International Marathon and running 52km in Balkan Challenge 1000 Km.

In his own words:

«Sport was an extraordinary tool to gain self-confidence, to get out of the mud of comfort in which I immersed myself every day and search for my true identity: that of the normal person with extraordinary energy. From now on I will make sport a lifestyle, to keep my energy at the highest levels and to become a model for my family, which I have already started working on.»

The first major competition

After his success, he had time to think and reflect: “I will continue to run, but how, when, why and for what?” – to these questions, he had no answer… yet. With determination in his heart, he created a plan and a purpose for himself: to run 7 marathons and 7 ultra-marathons, on 7 continents, in 777 days: the now famous 7–7–7 ProjectT.

The first step was also the most treacherous: running 100 km at -25 degrees through the most inhospitable terrain on Earth: this was the Antarctic Ice Marathon and in November 2014 Adriana would face it head on.

Most people like to spend birthdays with friends and family at home, and in the past, that would have been the case for you, too. This time he chose to travel it by running 100 km in Antarctica, to raise 15,000 euros for the treatment of children suffering from cancer (HOSPICE House of Hope Foundation). It was tough, and Adriana even admitted that no amount of training could have prepared her for what lay ahead, but in the end, she mustered the will to persevere and won the challenge. Antarctic Ice Marathon in less than 24 hours on his 34th birthday, as the only runner who “withstood extreme conditions” that year.

Before competing, only 5 other women participated in and finished the marathon. She was the sixth woman to complete it and the first woman of Romanian origin to do so and win.

Become a legend

Continuing her journey to become the most resilient woman in the world, Adriana competed and finished the King George Island Penguin Marathon to Antarctica, then went further north to Patagonia and traveled both Punta Arenas Southern Chile Marathon and the Chile Punta Arenas Ultra 50 km marathon.

With two continents on the ground, Adriana crossed the Atlantic to run in Africa. Its first destination where the vast and scorching dunes of the Sahara desert are located, where athletes from all over the world compete to finish the Sahara Desert Marathon. Afterwards, he set his sights on Cape Town Two Oceans Ultra 56 km marathon, held on the jeweled tip of the African continent.

The next leg of her journey took her back to the Old Continent, where she raced in French for the first time Eco Trail de Paris 50 km — starting near the Grand Canal and passing the Park of Versailles, crossing the finish line next to the Eiffel Tower, in the heart of Paris — and then much closer to home, entering and finishing the Chisinau International Marathon.

After Europe, Adriana raced in New Zealand Christchurch Marathon – an event renowned for its fast courses, based on the classic 1974 Commonwealth Games marathon. After New Zealand, he went on to run in one of Australia’s major marathons, the Australia Ultra 50km. Interestingly, Adriana may have actually lived on two continents here rather than one, since, although not yet fully accepted, there is evidence that geographically Zealandia is a distinct, but mostly submerged continent (also called a «drowned continent» – only New Zealand and a handful of islands are above sea level), differing from its more established neighbor Australia not only in its chronology of geological formation but also ecologically.

After Australia, it was time for her to race in North America. Once there he undertook the 50km journey Run quietly marathon, in Pollock Pines, California, a forested area at an altitude of over 1,200 meters, within the Sierra Nevada mountains. Once completed, he undertook the Amazing summer marathon in Los Angeles and I finished that too.

Nearing completion of her 7–7–7 project, Adriana Istrate went to Asia and joined the Singapore Marathon — an annual international IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federations) Gold Label road race that has been running since the early 1980s. In 2013, the year before Adriana ran, the marathon welcomed 60,000 runners from around the world.

Finally, the last endurance race of the 7–7–7 project: the 70km Vietnam Mountain Marathon in Asia. The last heat proved to be even tougher than the first; the Asian tropical jungle proved more treacherous than the icy expanses of Antarctica and Adriana walked 10km in 18 hours, much of it ankle-deep in mud. It was a grueling experience, but one he triumphed over.

THE 7–7–7 Project it was a resounding success.

Adriana Istrate managed to compete and win 14 marathons and ultramarathons in just 10 months, much faster than her goal of 777 days. In doing so, he set a new world record and beat Ziyad Tariq Rahim’s performance.

Adriana’s successes don’t stop there – she has participated in many other local competitions, as well as an Iron Man competition, but her list of successes is simply too long to fit it all into one article.

Starting again Energy Ambassador

Restart Energy greatly values ​​contributions to humanitarian causes, especially if done by bringing the global community closer together, something we also aim to achieve through Restart Energy Democracy (RED) platform. Adriana has our utmost respect for her contributions to noble causes and for her dedication to pushing the limits of what we know we, as human beings, are capable of.

The next step in Adriana’s brilliant sporting career is fast approaching: on April 15 this year, Adriana plans to run in freezing conditions again; this time on the opposite side of the world from where his legend began. He will compete in the North Pole Marathon and this time he will wear RED beyond the finish line.

Information about Reboot Energy

Restarting energy democracy (RED) is a blockchain-based platform, supported by Restart the power — a European energy supplier with $20 million in revenue. The company was built with the vision to democratize the energy sector and undo the dominance of legacy monopolies in the energy world. The company’s credentials include a customer base of 27,000 households and 3,000 corporate customers, expanding to over 2,000 customers per month (5,000 new customers in the first two months of 2018) and impressive growth: 1700% from 2015 to date.

Restart the power is developing the world’s first fully decentralized peer-to-peer energy transfer platform that allows users to send and receive energy worldwide, based on its proprietary virtual balancing system, which uses AI, Big Data and IoT technologies. The RED ecosystem consists of the RED platform, the RED franchise and the RED-MWAT tokens.

The RED franchise is the first electricity retail franchise that makes it easy and empowering for any business or entrepreneur to run their own energy services business, allowing them to start selling energy in more than 35 deregulated energy markets globally.

MWAT Tokens are cryptographic tokens that enable the purchase and sale of up to 1 MWh of electricity per month on the RED platform software and will facilitate the development of affordable clean energy, through free market practices. Upon completion of registration on the platform, an initial loyalty bonus of 0.11 kWh is applied. Producers send monthly loyalty bonuses through the RED loyalty system, totaling 1–5% of the energy traded on the grid in exchange for access to the RED platform.

It is important to underline that potential franchise partners will need to own (this is Not a form of payment in our favor) a certain number of MWAT tokensto qualify for our various franchise levels – the secret to our award-winning growth as a company!

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