Piotr Hercog

About

Piotr Hercog is a Polish ultrarunner, rock climbing instructor, speleologist, and mountain rescue volunteer (GOPR) born in Częstochowa who studied at the Academy of Physical Education in Poznań and now lives in Kudowa-Zdrój in the Lower Silesian mountains of southwestern Poland. A sports coach by training and president of the Maratony Górskie Foundation — which organises the Lower Silesian Mountain Running Festival, the Supermarathon of Table Mountains, and a mountain relay — he launched his Hercog Mountain Challenge project in 2016 with the ambition of competing at some of the world's most extreme mountain events and producing podium-level results. That ambition has been borne out: he won the Baikal Ice Marathon in 2016, racing across the world's deepest lake at −20°C, and was the top foreign finisher at the Mount Everest Marathon in 2017, which begins at Base Camp and descends to Namche Bazaar. His signature achievement came in 2018 when he won the Moab 240 Endurance Run in Utah — a 240-mile traverse of canyon country completed in 2 days, 12 hours, 14 minutes and 47 seconds. A Salomon team athlete, he is also the author of Ultrabiografia (with Jacek Antczak), a 500-page account of his racing life that received wide interest within the Polish trail running community.

Notable Wins

• — Moab 240 Endurance Run 2018
• — Baikal Ice Marathon 2016
• — top foreign finisher Mount Everest Marathon 2017

Race History