Brendan Watkins, 44, ran eight marathons spread across seven continents and New Zealand, raising more than $6,000 for charity. (Photo courtesy of Brendan Watkins)

It was the goal of raising money for charity that recently gave one Bay Area man the strength and energy he needed to run eight marathons in eight days on seven continents plus New Zealand.

Redwood Shores resident Brendan Watkins, 44, started Jan. 20 in New Zealand and traveled mostly east to west, raising more than $6,000 for the Lucile Packard Children’s Fund.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.