He will walk the same mile from the Bedford Lodge Hotel one thousand times in one thousand hours, finishing the last mile up the home straight of Newmarket racecourse just before the Darley July Cup on 10th July.
In 1809 Captain Robert Barclay Allardice was bet he couldn't walk the distance in a thousand hours. It meant he had to walk one mile in every consecutive hour 24 hours a day. He managed just over an hours sleep at any one time by walking back to back miles in different hours.
He completed the challenge later that year, losing three stone in the process with his challenge hailed as "one of the greatest human feats ever attempted."
200 years on, Dunwoody attempts that very same challenge.
He's doing it to raise money for Alzheimer's Society, Sparks, Racing Welfare and Spinal Research.
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