michaelgreven<p>Hey guys! I’m new here. I just found Mastodon after installing the Vivaldi browser.</p><p>I would like to share a series of short clips in the near future of me running the 496 Challenge by Sean Conway. You simply run each day a distance matching the day’s date (e.g. 1k on the first of the month, 2k on the second, etc.) in a month with 31 days. You’ll end up with a total of 496 kilometres at the end of the month. Sean, who gave himself the nickname “the endurance guy” says on his homepage that only 10% of those who start this challenge go on to finish it.</p><p>Well, I don’t know if that’s true. I did this challenge last month (May 2025) and managed to finish it. It was pretty hard in the last week. I finished 8 marathons in the past, so I’m not new to long distances, and I guess that helped me. Anyhow, I broke two personal records with this challenge: total distance per week and total distance per month.</p><p>I previously posted my clips to Facebook and Instagram and will share them here as well soon. <br><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/running" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>running</span></a><br><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/RunningCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RunningCommunity</span></a> <br><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/RunnersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RunnersOfMastodon</span></a> <br><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/the496challenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>the496challenge</span></a> <br><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/halfmarathon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>halfmarathon</span></a> <br><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Marathon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Marathon</span></a> <br><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/endurancerunning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>endurancerunning</span></a></p>