Competitor bio:

Thomas is a Financial Services Provider from Vienna, Austria. In midsummer of 1999 (at the age of 35) he quit smoking and started running instead. He has since finished 35 marathons on four continents. The first was in scenic Honolulu in December of 2000, his PB is from Chicago in 2014 (3:36h) and his latest marathon was Medoc, France in September. Thomas has also participated in four ultra races: Woerschach 24 hours, Austria in 2006, the Two Oceans and Zermatt, Switzerland in 2015, and the Karwendel-March in Austria in 2017. His proudest achievement, however, was finishing the major marathon series early: In October of 2009 he was the 6thperson in the world to finish the Major Five and in 2014 he was the fifth person in the world to finish the BIG SIX World Marathon Majors in one calendar year. He first heard of the WMC directly from the former Australian participant Douglas Wilson, who had crossed his jogging path in Coogee, Sydney in January 2015. It then took a full 18 months to let the idea sink in deeply enough to fully commit and another 18 months to prepare physically for the task ahead. As of 2014 he is a proud member of Run2gether, the Austrian/Kenyan running project (www.run2gether.com). The last ten days of training will be with the experienced hands of his Run2gether friends in an altitude camp in Kiambogo, Kenya.