Run 365 marathons in 365 days!

In the final hours of 2022, a Briton has achieved the insane goal he has set for the year: to raise £1 million to fight cancer by running 365 marathons in 365 days.

Gary Mackey, 53, ran his 365th in the winter rain on Saturday^e Marathon of the year, 15,330 kilometers, he was welcomed by a small crowd of supporters not far from his home.

But this father-of-three, who lives in Cleator Moor, in the northwest of England, did not reach his financial goal until a few hours later when he reached the sum of one million pounds sterling (1.64 million Canadian dollars), in exchange for benefiting the cancer support association Macmillan. The counter went up again on Sunday.

“Wow,” he tweeted Saturday night.

Gary Mackie isn’t into his first charity challenge: He’s already crossed Brazil by bike, climbed Kilimanjaro, and paddled distances equivalent to the English Channel. He ran 100 marathons in 100 days in 2017 and then 110 in 110 days in 2021.

This year she raised the bar significantly, requiring 22 pairs of sneakers. He was joined when he ran, often in the morning before working in the afternoon at a nuclear waste processing site, by various unknowns or even athletes such as England’s rugby coach Kevin Sinfield.

“The streets were full of people, it was raining, but everyone was cheering and shouting,” he said upon arriving at this year’s 365th Marathon on the BBC. “I will always remember that.”

He indicated to the niche runnersworld.com that he was not interested in the potential homologation of his achievement as a record: “What matters is not records but helping people.”