“What will you eat first after this?”⁠

“An ibuprofen. I think I’m going to be the first 22-year-old who needs new knees.”⁠ ⁠

Earlier this month, Jakob Wagenhofer rode into the history books with a new Triple Everesting world record: 26,846 metres of elevation, in just over 40 hours, outside Graz, Austria.⁠ ⁠

Last year, he completed a Double. This time, he came for the Triple.⁠ ⁠ “Honestly, I forgot how it even started. After nearly 75 reps, it was just about surviving.”⁠ ⁠

He rolled out Friday at 10:00. The first hours were mental.⁠ ⁠“Doubt creeps in. You start calculating, overthinking. I actually looked forward to the night, no traffic, no noise. Just riding.”⁠ ⁠

The final climbs pushed him to the edge. “I stopped checking my power. It was survival. Knees gone. Empty.”⁠ ⁠ He wasn’t sure he’d done enough. Air pressure, GPS drift, tree cover, it all messes with altitude.

The team waited at the top, in total silence.

The entire ride came down to a Strava upload.⁠ ⁠ 3:00 a.m. Upload complete. Record confirmed. Triple Everesting: done.⁠ ⁠

“I still haven’t processed it. But it feels… insanely cool.”⁠ ⁠

Shoutout to the Heartland Cycling Graz crew – Felix Kreimer, Manuel Feldbaumer, and Csilla Hus also knocked out Single Everestings. 💪
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