A teenage fundraiser from East Kilbride has been awarded a Guinness World Report for smashing a charity Mount Kilimanjaro race in reminiscence of his soccer coach.
Harvey Mitchell-Divers gained the world’s highest endurance race - a half marathon - as a part of the Uhuru Peak Problem, additionally coming second within the vertical kilometre ingredient of the problem.
The 17-year-old used UWS’s state-of-the-art environmental chamber to coach forward of the problem.
Referred to as the world’s highest path run, it consists of a tricky 3.5km run with 1000 metres of vertical climb to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro.
Harvey took half to boost cash for The Mind Tumour Charity in reminiscence of his soccer coach, Dougie Craggs, who misplaced his battle with mind most cancers.
Following his epic success, Harvey informed Lanarkshire Dwell : “After 5 fairly brutal days of mountaineering between four-to-six hours per day, I managed to finish the vertical kilometre in just below two-and-a-half hours – a climb that may usually take wherever between four-to-six hours.
“I then started the half marathon descent from the summit, which took me three-and-a-half hours – a hike that often takes one or two days to finish.
"Operating all downhill for this lengthy was completely grim, however I pushed by way of.
“Dougie Craggs is the actual motive I took on this problem, and I hope that I've performed him and his household proud.
"Once I felt like giving up, I remembered why I used to be right here and I caught it out, obtained the job performed and by no means gave up.”
Harvey isn't any stranger to powerful challenges – he just lately gained his age group class within the World Spartan Championships in Abu Dhabi and has set his sights on the OCR World Championships in Vermont USA subsequent month, the place he'll compete within the 100m, 3k and 15k races.
To assist him prepare and acclimatise to the situations he confronted, Harvey labored with Professor Chris Easton at UWS’s cutting-edge services, utilizing the chamber to duplicate the environmental extremes he would face on the problem.
Considered one of solely two in Scotland and the one one within the West of Scotland, the chamber can mimic the identical situations as strolling within the desert to standing on one of many world’s highest mountains, and can be utilized by people to enhance bodily efficiency within the run as much as essential occasions.
Chris Easton, head of sport and train at UWS, informed us : “Everybody at UWS is extremely happy with Harvey for taking up this unbelievable problem.
"Collaborating was inspiring sufficient, however to have carried out so properly is unbelievable.
"Harvey has formidable plans for extra challenges sooner or later and everybody at UWS could be delighted to work with him once more to assist him put together in any manner we are able to.”
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