![]() ![]() But Leonard was so affected by the dog, he launched a crowdfunding campaign and travelled to China to find her. Shortly after the race, Gobi went missing. Leonard has chronicled the experience, and the ensuing whirlwind adventure to adopt Gobi, in Finding Gobi¸ released Tuesday. ![]() The dog, who would later be named Gobi, tailed Leonard for nearly 128 km and captured the world’s attention online. ![]() ![]() Stray pup races alongside man throughout seven-day ultra-marathon “It was then that I started to realize I had a real deep feeling for her and the bond was really forming.” “I went to these races trying to win them but I stopped as I went halfway through a river crossing because she was yelping and whining and barking,” said Leonard, 41, of Edinburgh, who completed the race in 2016. He knew, as he turned back to carry the dog across, he’d reached a “turning point.” On Day 3, halfway through a river crossing, he heard yelps and saw the dog standing on the riverbank, unable to follow. Dion Leonard had just begun the second stage of the Gobi March, a 250-kilometre race through the Gobi Desert in China, when he noticed a stray dog was following him. ![]()
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