I love Strava. What I love most is that I can’t cheat it. My watch tells me how far, how fast and where I’ve run and it tells the internet. Any sneaky walks will show up. Now I have really had to plan and work hard on my running to achieve my target of a 2,500 metre run climb over a month. (Nearly there!) So when I look at the other people taking the challenge and see the results for the other thousands of people (53,346), many of whom are fitter than me I am impressed.

But I’m more than impressed by you, Matthias Schelkens. You have clocked an elevation in November of over 100,000 metres.  That’s over 10 Everests. Or the generally accepted beginning of space. You’ve run the equivalent of “to space” in less than a month Matthias! Way to go! And in only 9 runs. In fact in the last week you’ve run 24.km and climbed 27,677 metres. That’s more than a 1 in 1 incline (I’m assuming you haven’t included the downhill bit in which case it would be even steeper). I salute you, half human, half mountain goat!

Give us a wave next time you’re up that mountain!