OV9

never seem to stop advancing...

Back in the day, if you swam the channel, it was an amazing achievement. Ian Botham walking from Lands End to John O'Groats was seen as superhuman. And climbing Everest was for the elite professional climbers.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgxrzk2rveo

This guy swims the channel (35km) then cycles from France to the Indian coast (12,000km), then runs to Kathmandu from Sea Level (900km), then hikes to Everest Basecamp (360km) and THEN, climbs Everest...

Some people have done bits of this - Goran Kroop cycled from Sweden to Everest, summited, then cycled back and Tim McCartney-Snape climbed Everest from Sea Level in the bay of Bengal and back. But this latest effort is amazing...

So what's next - do all that and then reverse it and end up back in Dover...

And I’m debating whether it’s a bit too hot to run 10k today

All of that after knee surgery as well. Well, if I didn't feel inadequate before..

I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts compared to swimming the channel, cycling from France to the Indian coast, running to Kathmandu from Sea Level, hiking to Everest Basecamp and then climbing Everest.

When I visited the North Cape of Norway in my M3, I felt like it was a decent personal automotive achievement. (Still not as much as Dave! Taking his Landy there in the winter)

At the accommodation I was staying at, I was chatting to another Brit who had arrived on a Honda Wave 125, which would have been much more uncomfortable than my trip in my M3.

Then a bloke from Austria arrived on his bicycle...

Then some guy (IIRC in his 70s) who is famous in Denmark walked from his home in Denmark to the North Cape of Norway, for charity.

We joked who is going to arrive next

Suddenly, me arriving pretty comfortably in my car seemed a bit more mundane!

Just someone who really likes running and really doesn’t like their family.

See also Ross Edgeley.

Just very differently wired humans.

Dave!

It's impressive but I also think it's a colossal waste of time
There was also that guy who ran a marathon every day for almost 2 years straight.
But different strokes for different folks.

Mito Man wrote: Tue May 13, 2025 3:36 pm It's impressive but I also think it's a colossal waste of time

yeah, my thoughts too.

we get it, you can run every day.

Does he not have a job to go to?

I guess for his next trick he can do a similar trip on a long weekend off.

It's an incredible feat of human achievement and it does make me wonder if therapy would have been a bit cheaper?

Rich B wrote: Tue May 13, 2025 3:40 pm

Mito Man wrote: Tue May 13, 2025 3:36 pm It's impressive but I also think it's a colossal waste of time

yeah, my thoughts too.

we get it, you can run every day.

You losers would still be in caves while those brave folk explore the limits of human endurance

Dave!

mik wrote: Tue May 13, 2025 2:12 pm I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts compared to swimming the channel, cycling from France to the Indian coast, running to Kathmandu from Sea Level, hiking to Everest Basecamp and then climbing Everest.

I approve of this reference.

Hadn't heard of Ross Edgley. Blimey. As well as all the crazy swimming, a marathon round Silverstone pulling a 1400kg mini

JonMad wrote: Wed May 14, 2025 1:16 pm Hadn't heard of Ross Edgley. Blimey. As well as all the crazy swimming, a marathon round Silverstone pulling a 1400kg mini

He is also crazily positive, the swim around the U.K. really hammered his body but he did it.

Wasn’t there a show discussing these ultra athletes and their minds ?

Dave!