In March, Matthieu Bonne deserted his world record effort to run 1,038 kilometers in 6 days– all of them on a 400-meter track– however in September he will choose another world record effort. In the run-up to his brand-new world record effort, he has actually currently broken a Belgian record by running 275.2 kilometers in 24 hours. He did so in a race in Ireland, which he won.
Bonne remains in complete preparation for his world record effort, which will occur next month, and utilized the 24-hour run as a last test. While the previous Belgian record stood at 270 kilometers (Paul Beckers, 2003), Bonne surpassed that by more than 5 kilometers. By his own admission, the very first 10 hours went extremely unwinded and he then kept running around a typical speed of 5 minutes per kilometer. “The world vanished and I was actually in my own zone.”
From hour 10 to fifteen, the speed even increased a bit. To make it through the lonesome night hours, Bonne listened to numerous podcasts. In the next 5 hours– that is, from hours fifteen to twenty– Bonne got a little harder, however handled to keep the rate still stable.
In the last 4 hours, he understood the record would be broken therefore Bonne dropped the speed somewhat. In the end, Bonne ran for 24 hours at a typical rate of 5:13 minutes per kilometer. “Now we're returning to the drawing board. It will be September quickly,” he expects his world record effort.
