Pennine Way

The sheep farmer broke the Lake District 24-hour record three times and ran the fastest-known times on the Three Peaks, Welsh 3,000ers and Pennine Way.

In January 2019 mother-of-two Jasmin expressed milk for her baby during a 268-mile race along the Pennine Way to break the course record by more than 12 hours.

"He's done the Pennine Way in completion," he said.

There are models for such marathon enterprises — the Appalachian Trail, the Camino de Santiago, the Pennine Way — which attract hundreds of thousands of hikers annually and have transformed the economies of rural regions through which they pass.

As he recovers from his most recent feat at home in Somerset, he says the Pennine Way first appealed "as a great challenge that could really test the outer limits of what I'm capable of".