A man who ran more than 1,000 kilometres through the outback to raise money and awareness for a rare disorder managed to complete the final leg with a fractured hip.

Mitch McKenny spent four weeks pounding the bitumen highway between Broken Hill and Newcastle on his mission for Angelman syndrome, which his friend's child, Huxley Maguire, was diagnosed with at four months old.

The rare genetic condition affects the functioning of nerves in the brain and can cause physical and intellectual problems.

Near Narromine, some 715km into the 34-year-old's massive run, after averaging eight hours a day of running for about two weeks straight, he began to experience pain in his hip.

Mr McKenny put it down to a pulled muscle and took the foot off the ignition for the 40km stretch between Narromine

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