Vogue Williams had a five-word warning for her husband Spencer Matthews when he announced his intention to run 30 marathons in 30 consecutive days on sand.
The 36-year-old former Made in Chelsea star made it into the Guinness Book of Records after successfully completing the gruelling challenge last year. However, he confessed that those closest to him, including his wife Vogue, 39, harboured major concerns about the challenge.
Especially because Spencer hadn’t come from an athletics background. The star had instead been battling an alcohol addiction, admitting he was a “slave to the bottle”.
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Speaking to Mail Online, Spencer revealed: “Oh my wife was of the opinion, ‘Well, that will kill you.’ My mum wasn’t very happy with me. Nobody was happy, really.”
Spencer says Vogue was “holding the fort” with their three children – Theordore, Gigi and Otto – while he completed the 726 mile endurance challenge across Jordan in West Africa. When he eventually returned home, Spencer says Vogue asked if he was “ever going to do anything like this again?”
He explained: “I said: “Well, I’d love to do something like this every year for the next ten years.”
Having conquered one monumental endurance test, Spencer is already eyeing up his next feat. He now aims to complete Ironman triathlons on each of the seven continents, culminating the challenge in Antarctica, reports Dublin Live.
Each event will challenge Spencer with a 2.4-mile (3.8km) swim, a staggering 112-mile (180km) cycle ride and a marathon-length 26.2-mile (42.2km) run—a daunting trial that so far only one individual has conquered, albeit across four years. In stark contrast, Spencer is setting his sights on smashing this extraordinary feat in just a matter of weeks.
In an interview with Deadline, Spencer divulged his ambitious goal: “This is without doubt ambitious – but what I have discovered is a love of pushing myself, and of achieving what would have previously been unachievable to me. Running 30 consecutive marathons earlier this year opened my eyes to what the human mind and body is capable of.”
He further confessed to the ardour he’s developed for the sport: “Despite the gruelling conditions, I fell even more in love with running. As soon as I crossed the finish line I was itching for the next challenge.”