It took 65 laps of a Derbyshire hill for Lizzie Hermolle to become the fastest woman to scale the height of Everest off-road last week.
The 31-year-old bested the previous record-holder, time triallist Emma Pooley, by just under two hours, in a time of 11 hours and five minutes. And after 8,848 metres of climbing and over 157km in the saddle, she had a few more laps left in her legs.
