They do a Deca one per day, Quintuple one per day and Deca continuous at Swiss Ultra.
I’ve been following the Deca continuous for a bit as I follow Adrian Kostera. Adrian is an amazing athlete (100 marathons in 100 days, while working a physically demanding job for example, just run before or after work). These athletes doing the Deca are just insane.
The guy leading the Deca continuous, Robert Karas, has about a 24 hour lead on the number 2 at the moment.
He finished the 38 km swim in 9:44…Then the 1800km bike ride under 79 hours total, so under 69 hours for the bike. That’s an average of about 16 mph/26kph. In the first 4 days he slept about 6 hours, I hope that won’t catch up to him later. Although he could go for a long rest, and still have a comfortable lead, it does look like he took a 4 hour nap before the start of the run.
Here you can find the live tracker, the first 3 athletes have done the swim and 175 loops of the bike (they do 200 laps of 9 km), the run is 350 laps of 1.2 km. Robert is on lap 55 of the run (so at km ~66), nr 2 Belgium Kenneth Vanthuyne is on lap 182 of the bike, nr 3 Adrian Kostera on bike lap 176.
Read into this quite a bit and would quite like to do something like the anvil, or another 5x somewhere. Problem I have is firstly young kids make it difficult enough without the risk of long term health issues that seem pretty common.
Someday I will. Probably take on the double or triple in the next 2/3 years and see from there.
It’s insane how close it is between the 3 leaders at the moment. They came off the bike within 17 min of each other. After 107 hours of racing! Leadership has changed a few times due to resting, and they’re in running lap 23-30 (of 350) right now, so it can go many ways still.
Rait is a machine too, I just can’t find the results of the past days on the site. How’s he doing? I saw he did a backyard ultra type thing last week as well, came second and finished with about 180km, but he said it was a training run.
Rait is a machine too, I just can’t find the results of the past days on the site. How’s he doing? I saw he did a backyard ultra type thing last week as well, came second and finished with about 180km, but he said it was a training run.
He says he had urological surgery 3 weeks ago and the long bike messed with the area they’d operated on, running further became impossible. Doctors reportedly told him that to continue running would put his life at risk.
He’s also a funny character because he switched from pro triathlon to ultra (where he won several IUTA world championships and broke the 2x and 5x records, gaining mainstream notoriety) to… Fame MMA (a Polish freak fight organization - celebrity MMA of sorts). But he never got to fight after a vertebra in his neck fractured during MMA training. His next idea, instead of recovering and going for a rescheduled MMA debut, was to do 100 (non-drafting) ironmans in 100 days in early 2023. In the meantime he signed up for Deca, preceded by 5 weeks of triathlon training. I don’t know how much of this is true because Robert is a marketing genius making hundreds of thousands of $ a year without having to race another pro triathlete.
He’s the only Polish triathlete known to the Polish non-triathlon crowd. I get questions about him all the time.
Thanks for that info! I can’t imagine to go for a 1800 km bikeride 3 weeks after urological surgery, ouch!
MMA…I guess he would win if the fight is over more than 50 rounds.
Kenneth now pretty solidly in the lead 161 laps to go (just over 190 km), while Richard and Adrian are really battling it out, they’re within 1-2 laps of each other and have 182-183 laps to go (about 218 km to go).