

“If that doesn’t work, then you just tell yourself left, right, left, right and that’s what you just keep saying over and over and over.

You take 10 steps forward, and then you do it again and you do it again. “So you just break it down into 10-second intervals. “I can do anything for 10 seconds,” he told CNN Sport. Such a feat of endurance was naturally not without its difficulties, but when things got tough, Woltering went back to basics. Starting on June 1, it took Woltering 21 days, 13 hours, 35 minutes to run the 1,147 miles – smashing the previous record by some five hours. Not content with seeing his training go to waste, the athlete took on the crazy challenge of recording the fastest known time across the Ice Age Trail – a historic footpath which runs through the state of Wisconsin, US. You’d have forgiven ultrarunner Coree Woltering for taking some time off after a number of his races were canceled amid the global pandemic, but the 30-year-old had other ideas.
