RUN THE PLANET follows celebrity ultra/adventure runner Lisa Tamati and her beginner protege Chris Ord as they take on extreme adventure runs across the globe tapping into some of the most fascinating feats of endurance running the pages of history have unearthed.

Can an ultra runner who has already run two and a half times around the planet and a beginner who has run a few times around the block answer the question: were humans really born to run?

The answer lies in a bet…