Bob Scholtes is turning extreme running into more than a personal test. The Luxembourg athlete and social media creator recently said he ran about 186 miles in six days while preparing for a home-style elimination race that lasted 40 hours and covered about 167 miles.
That kind of training sounds hard to even picture. But for Scholtes, known online as Bobfitlx, the miles are also part of a larger message. He wants to show that sport can pull people out of their routines, bring them together, and make hard goals feel a little less impossible.
A 186-mile training week
Scholtes said his preparation included about 31 miles per day for six straight days. That is longer than a marathon every day, with another five miles added on top before most people would even think about recovery.
The race he was preparing for followed the backyard ultra format. In simple terms, runners complete a loop every hour, and anyone who fails to start or finish the next loop is out.
In this case, the loop was about 4.2 miles. Scholtes said the event lasted 40 hours, which meant almost two days of repeated running, waiting, eating, resetting, and then going again.
Pushing past normal limits
Scholtes does not present these efforts as casual workouts. He says his training is intense and often happens twice a day, with no real rest when he is building toward a major event.
That raises an obvious question. Why would someone choose to make training even harder right before a race?
His answer is simple but revealing. Scholtes said that before some races, he does exhausting sessions that are “a little crazy,” but added, “I need it.” For him, the difficult part is not only the mileage. It is learning what happens when the body wants to stop and the mind has to decide what comes next.
From private athlete to public figure
Three years ago, Scholtes was not sharing these efforts with a large audience. According to the information provided, his friends encouraged him to start posting after telling him that what he was doing was impressive.
That push changed the way his running was seen. Today, Scholtes has about 19,300 followers on Instagram, and reporting from RTL Today describes him as a Luxembourg athlete who documents his endurance challenges under the Bobfitlx name.
His goal is not just attention. Scholtes said he wants to prove that “anyone can do it,” while motivating people to exercise and inspiring younger generations. Over time, he also hopes his videos can become a full-time career.
The rise of D’Ekipp
Scholtes is also part of D’Ekipp, a Luxembourg sports collective created with other local influencers. The group’s message is built around motivation, but even more around community.
Its slogan is “Be part of something big.” That may sound like a social media phrase, but in practical terms, it means inviting people to run together instead of watching fitness content from the sidelines.
Étude reported that D’Ekipp was founded in 2025 by four friends, including Scholtes, and has grown from shared runs into one of Luxembourg’s visible young community sports movements.
The same report said the group frames its events as social runs, not races, so beginners do not feel pushed away by pace or pressure.
Thousands show up to run
The scale has grown quickly. Scholtes said D’Ekipp organizes community runs about once a month, inviting followers and newcomers to join them in person.
At the latest run mentioned in the source material, more than 2,000 people showed up. That is no longer just a few friends jogging through town. It is a moving crowd, with all the noise, nerves, and energy that comes when strangers decide to start together.
For many people, that may be the real hook. Not everyone wants to run 186 miles in a week, and most people never will. But joining a relaxed group run can feel like a first step that actually fits into normal life.
What comes next
Scholtes has already turned his attention to another challenge, the Last Soul ultramarathon in Germany. He described it as another race at a calm pace, but said he wants to truly test his limits and see how long he can hold on.
The Last Soul format has already been part of his story. RTL Lëtzebuerg reported that Scholtes previously took part in the event and finished eighth, after a race built around completing a roughly 4.2-mile loop every hour until only one runner remained.
At the end of the day, Scholtes’ story is not only about mileage. It is about what happens when a personal challenge becomes public, and then becomes an invitation for others to move.
The main source material for this article was provided in the assignment brief, with additional reporting published by RTL Today and Étude.
