Sir Ranulph Fiennes

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It did seem unlikely he was faster than you, but I didn't read your post as sarcastic, just puzzling.

Do many of the runners do it every year, or is it mostly a "do it to prove you can" thing?

Probably about 15% have done it before, maybe about 5% do it every year. One chap has done it 28 times. I'll most probably do it again next year and I'll see after that.

It's probably out of reach of a lot of people with cost and stuff, certainly to do it repeatedly.