While runners in Britain were being blown away by storm Brian last Saturday, the World Record for Vertical Kilometre running was being blown away by Italian skyrunner Philip Götsch at Fully in Switzerland. His time of 28m53s took an amazing 49 seconds off the previous record, set at Fully in 2014 by Urban Zemmer, and is (to the best of my knowledge) only the second time that a vertical kilometre has been run in under 30 minutes.

https://www.runningpassion.it/news/k...-al-femminile/ [If, like me, your Italian isn't very good, Google translate does make reasonable sense of this.] Results at https://www.mso-chrono.ch/fr/results...ully/dashboard

Those of you with long fell-running memories may be interested to know that Mike Short, still running for Horwich RMI Harriers after all these years living in Switzerland, posted a very respectable time of 41:12 at the age of 69. He runs the VK at Fully every year, and I am fairly sure that this year was the first time since reaching the age of 60 that anyone has beaten him in the M60 category (or Vétérans III as they call it).