Hexatrek FKT

Karel Sabbe · Vosges → Atlantic Pyrenees

Day Started connecting…

Predicted finish

Karel Sabbe's HexaTrek FKT, tracked live

Expected to cross at . Models spread .

Karel Sabbe is running the HexaTrek: 2,954 km across France, from the Vosges to the Atlantic Pyrenees, climbing 119,587 m on the way. This page reads his GPS tracker every five minutes and works out when he finishes, and whether that beats the unofficial record of 42 days 4 hours 23 minutes.

Against the record

Unofficial best: …

Against his goal

Goal: ~33d

Right now

connecting…

Today

Pace right now

Moving today

Average pace today

Kilometres per hour today, local time.

Progress along the trail

0% of the trail behind him

… km

The numbers

Everything measured from his own GPS trail, snapped onto the planned route.

Put another way

What he has covered, what is still in front, and how both compare with a normal thru-hike of the same trail.

Ground gained

His actual line against the two pace-setters, and where the models have him finishing.

Karel projection record goal

Where he is

Orange is covered ground; the pale line is what's left.

What's still to climb

The Alps and Pyrenees are still ahead.

Day by day

Distance covered each calendar day, and the metres climbed doing it.

Kilometres per day
Metres climbed per day

Pace, rolling

Four-hour rolling pace in minutes per kilometre, against his running pace so far. Faster is higher; the line breaks where he stopped.

Rest & the long hours

Each row is one day on the same 24-hour scale. Solid is moving, hatched is stopped, and the gap at the end of the last row is the part of today still to come. The ratio is what wins or loses a record like this.

How the call is made

Three independent estimates, each finishing him at a different hour. The terrain-adjusted one leads the page, because this course is decided by its climbing. The range up top is simply the fastest and slowest of the three.