Ultramarathon runners are a different breed. Not content with running the length of a traditional marathon — a little over 26 miles, or roughly the distance from Marathon to Athens, Greece — they push themselves further when most of us would be content sitting at home or, at best, cheering them on from the sidelines.

One Redditor recently demonstrated that level of commitment after their ultramarathon at Brazos Bend, Texas, in which they were set to run 100 kilometers, was canceled. Since they couldn’t run in the official race, they decided to undertake their own ultramarathon around their 0.07 mile cul-de-sac.

I was supposed to run Brazos Bend 100k last weekend, but it got cancelled... So I ran 32 miles in a 0.07mi cul-de-sac instead.
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Sharing a screenshot of their Strava log to the r/Ultramarathon subreddit, the OP wrote, “I was supposed to run Brazos Bend 100k last weekend, but it got cancelled... So I ran 32 miles in a 0.07mi cul-de-sac instead.” In the screenshot, we can see that they did indeed run 32.01 miles for 5 hours and 9 minutes, with an average pace of 9 minutes and 40 seconds per mile.

Commenters were supportive, with one writing, “Way to take a s–ty situation and make it much more miserable! Seriously, awesome job!” Meanwhile, someone else joked, “Psycho behavior, and I love it.”

Another commenter asked if OP changed directions at any point, to which they responded, “No that would have been cheating. Cul-de-sac ultras have very strict rules.”

A different commenter asked if one of OP’s legs was now feeling worse than the other, and OP clarified that since they kept an easy pace, they feel pretty good, and actually, they wanted to run over 40 miles, but didn’t get out of bed in time and had to call it quits in order to go to work.

Darn capitalism interfering in people’s attempts to boldly go where no other ultramarathoners have gone before.

If all of that wasn’t crazy enough, they ran this entire thing from midnight to 5 a.m. Honestly, you have to respect it.