Four challenges, every one of them logged to the rep and the kilometre. No photos — just the numbers, which are harder to fake. Every tick on a dial is one day.
Ten kilometres in fifty‑two minutes
The first one. A single 10‑kilometre road race, entered to see whether the training would hold. It did: 52 minutes flat, a 5:12 pace held from the gun to the line — and it set the tone for everything that followed: sign up, show up, finish.
A walking marathon, every day and a half, for two months
Two months of walking with no rest day: 1,732 kilometres in 62 days — the distance of 41 marathons, or London to Rome and back to Paris. An average of 27.9 km a day, a longest day of 58.7 km, twenty‑four days over 30 km, eight days past the full marathon mark, and 764 floors climbed along the way.
| Period | Distance | Floors climbed | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|
| Days 1-31 | 872.3 km | 669 | 28.1 km |
| Days 32-62 | 860.1 km | 95 | 27.7 km |
| Total | 1,732.4 km | 764 | 27.9 km |
A progressive strength block: 42,500 reps
A twelve‑week programme that climbed as it went. Ten thousand each of push‑ups, sit‑ups and two crunch variations, plus 2,500 pull‑ups — 42,500 repetitions in 84 days, with the load climbing through the last four weeks: week twelve is the heaviest since the third, 5,350 reps, and holds the most pull‑ups of any week, 750.
| Week | Push‑ups | Sit‑ups | Pull‑ups | Crunches V1 | Crunches V2 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 460 | 460 | 87 | 460 | 460 | 1,927 |
| 2 | 1,300 | 1,300 | 80 | 1,300 | 1,300 | 5,280 |
| 3 | 1,440 | 1,440 | 0 | 1,440 | 1,440 | 5,760 |
| 4 | 800 | 800 | 10 | 800 | 800 | 3,210 |
| 5 | 800 | 800 | 0 | 800 | 800 | 3,200 |
| 6 | 600 | 600 | 0 | 600 | 600 | 2,400 |
| 7 | 600 | 600 | 0 | 600 | 600 | 2,400 |
| 8 | 500 | 500 | 0 | 500 | 500 | 2,000 |
| 9 | 600 | 600 | 373 | 600 | 600 | 2,773 |
| 10 | 700 | 700 | 600 | 700 | 700 | 3,400 |
| 11 | 1,050 | 1,050 | 600 | 1,050 | 1,050 | 4,800 |
| 12 | 1,150 | 1,150 | 750 | 1,150 | 1,150 | 5,350 |
| Total | 10,000 | 10,000 | 2,500 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 42,500 |
Five thousand of everything, and nineteen hours of stillness
The long one. Five thousand push‑ups, five thousand pull‑ups, five thousand sit‑ups and ten thousand crunches across a hundred days — 25,000 reps — with a daily meditation practice running alongside: nineteen hours in all. The second half outworked the first: 3,200 push‑ups after day fifty against 1,800 before it.
| Days | Push‑ups | Pull‑ups | Sit‑ups | Crunches V1 | Crunches V2 | Meditation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1-10 | 500 | 400 | 500 | 500 | 500 | 2.5 h |
| 11-20 | 500 | 500 | 500 | 500 | 500 | 2 h |
| 21-30 | 250 | 440 | 250 | 250 | 250 | 2 h |
| 31-40 | 150 | 660 | 150 | 150 | 150 | 2 h |
| 41-50 | 400 | 410 | 400 | 400 | 400 | 1.5 h |
| 51-60 | 600 | 590 | 600 | 600 | 600 | 1.5 h |
| 61-70 | 500 | 500 | 500 | 500 | 500 | 1.5 h |
| 71-80 | 500 | 500 | 500 | 500 | 500 | 1.5 h |
| 81-90 | 900 | 500 | 900 | 900 | 900 | 2 h |
| 91-100 | 700 | 500 | 700 | 700 | 700 | 2.5 h |
| Total | 5,000 | 5,000 | 5,000 | 5,000 | 5,000 | 19 h |
| Period | Push‑ups | Pull‑ups | Sit‑ups | Crunches V1 | Crunches V2 | Meditation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Days 1-50 | 1,800 | 2,410 | 1,800 | 1,800 | 1,800 | 10 h |
| Days 51-100 | 3,200 | 2,590 | 3,200 | 3,200 | 3,200 | 9 h |