THE new tough

think about climbing Mount Everest. Then think about climbing it twice. Now imagine that rather than climbing it, you’re running up and down it. That’s equivalent to what Jasmin Paris achieved last year when she ran the Montane Spine Race, a brutal 430km marathon up and down the mountains of the UK’s Pennine Way. In driving rain and gusting winds, the then-35-year-old finished it in 83 hours, 12 minutes and 23 seconds, knocking a huge 12 hours off the previous male record. This, despite stopping along the way to express milk for her baby daughter. In the summer version, another British woman, Sabrina Verjee, smashed Paris’ record, leaving any competition a cool six hours behind her. Then there’s Courtney Dauwalter, an American who finished the Moab 240 (240 miles, or 386km, across the Utah desert) in 2017, 10 hours quicker than